How many more lives are we going to lose because the members of the administration are in the pockets of the NRA? Since the time of the Founding Fathers and since they added the Second Amendment to the Constitution, our guns have developed at a rate that leaves me dizzy.
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But prospects for a tough crackdown are low.
Most of those friends with whom I have shared this newfound hope that the NRA had now met its most credible opposition yet, did not generally share my optimism about changing gun laws.
Finally, if gun ownership became unlawful most law-abiding citizens would turn in their weapons, while those who don’t obey laws wouldn’t.
Yet that would only affect sales by licensed gun dealers. Lawmakers passed a tax bill that removed fuel tax benefits that could have saved the company about $40 million a year.
When a dad and his kid altered an email, people talked about the travesty of it… instead of talking about limiting access to guns.
Given these facts (“facts” being something that seem no longer to be in vogue in our politically divided world), there would seem to be only one immediate fix to the problem of endless gun violence. That left him just 18 votes short of a majority in the House. Then, the mass shooting at Columbine High School in Colorado took place on April 20, killing 13 and wounding more than 20.
A day before, Schumer announced a gun control plan that calls for a ban on assault weapons.
The US corporation said the Florida shooting on 14 February, in which 17 people died, required a response.
The federal government says licensed firearms deals can not sell a handgun to anyone under 21 and a rifle or long gun to anyone under 18.
However, there are still ways people can get their hands on guns without the hassle of a background check or an age restriction. Some states set their own limits that are slightly tighter than federal laws. So yes, people kill people with guns, but guns give way to death in numbers high than anyone should have right to.
“The mainstream media love mass shootings”, the Fairfax-based NRA proclaimed in a video directing attention away from it guns-rights agenda. That’s because every time a lunatic opens fire with an AR-15 in a school or a movie theater, a government building or a Las Vegas concert, we line up in two factions and scream at the top of our lungs. They look repeatedly at the landscape of America’s gun culture and warn that the carnage will be repeated if nothing is done.
But teachers and many communities largely reject this approach, and Congress is unlikely to legislate it.
Of course, there were many people who were opposed to the change.
BlackRock Inc is considering offering investors the chance not to invest in gun firms, and is asking those firms how they monitor safe use of weapons.
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In its announcement Wednesday, Dick’s also said it would halt sales of assault-style weapons. Walmart took that step in 2015. Maybe semi automatic guns are more unsafe than revolvers or lever actions, or pumps, or muzzle loaders.
