“I vetoed a statewide I.D. system for gun owners and I pardoned, six out-of-state folks who came through our state and were arrested for owning a gun legally in another state so they never have to face charges”.
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As political theater, it put Donald Trump’s rantings in the shade.
“Let me be clear: The NRA will fight this illegal overreach more aggressively than we have ever challenged anything”.
The epidemic of gun violence in our country is a crisis. She added that Obama should enforce laws on the books rather than “create new ones”.
A more recent study from 2013, led by a Boston University School of Public Health researcher, reached similar conclusions: After controlling for multiple variables, the study found that a 1 percent increase in gun ownership correlated with a roughly 0.9 percent rise in the firearm homicide rate at the state level.
The National Shooting Sports Foundation, which is holding its annual SHOT Show in Las Vegas next week, isn’t as enthusiastic. They are apparently not that mentally unbalanced. To continue focusing on that object by passing another gun control law in lieu of taking actions centered on the objective of saving lives will continue to achieve failure.
Who is more mentally unbalanced, those who are doing the shooting or those who refuse to examine the facts about what kinds of places attract such shooters? However, this may appease the nine out of 10 Americans who support stricter gun laws and even the eight out of 10 Republicans not strangled by the NRA gun lobby who agree, it is not a real solution, and so I scoff.
According to Williams, this year the City Council hopes to implement a budget of more than $100 million to provide summer employment opportunities for youth. He had been waiting 7 long years for that big moment. “You prosecute criminals. You go after the bad guys”.
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Gun control zealots seem especially opposed to people being allowed to carry their guns concealed. Among the areas for potential review by the courts would be the question of whether or not new legislation might be considered a violation of the Second Amendment’s guarantee of the right of citizens to keep and bear arms. That’s because although mass shooters are likely to be mentally ill (but not necessarily diagnosed), high-profile mass shootings represent only a small fraction of United States gun violence, the vast majority of which is committed by people who are not mentally ill. It can take a lot of the fun out of being a thug.
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“If we can combine gun safety with sensible background checks and some other steps, we’re not going to eliminate gun violence, but we will lessen it”, Obama said last Tuesday in a press release sent to the AmNews.
