The same result for a bill that would ban those on the no-fly list from purchasing a gun. Women account for 50 percent of the victims in mass shootings, compared with only 15 percent of overall gun homicides, according to Everytown for Gun Safety, based on media reports from 2009 through July.
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Nearly three years ago, after the killing of 20 children and six adults at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., President Obama asked Congress to change the law to require background checks for weapons sold outside the network of licensed gun dealers, including sales at gun shows or through the Internet. The president has said he worries about the difficulties of preventing a homegrown or “lone-wolf” attacker on USA soil and the limits of security measures to prevent them. After initially cast such shootings a mental health issue, to a large extent, in an interview with The Associated Press on Wednesday night, he offered another explanation Thursday. We have thousands of people on a no-fly list.
Our prayers are with the families of those who were murdered and those who were shot.
“It is possible that this was terrorist-related”. Rob Bradley said legislators have to be mindful of the people in this state.
But this standpoint is inconsistent.
Investigators in southern California are trying to determine a motive behind Wednesday’s mass shooting that killed fourteen people and wounded twenty-one. “Because our inaction is a political decision that we’re making”, Obama said at a news conference.
They talk tough on terrorism, contending we must do everything we can to thwart future attacks, but apparently this doesn’t include keeping firearms away from those who might commit terror attacks.
Yet all these factors pale, in some respects, to the more critical issue: the ease with which ordinary Americans can come into possession of assault-style weapons.
“I am for gun rights, but I am also for having good background checks so that terrorists can’t get it”, Kathy Boarman said.
In 2011, American-born al-Qaeda spokesman Adam Yahiye Gadahn called for the terrorist group’s followers to take advantage of America’s lax gun laws. So what are you waiting for?
The vote on the gun control amendments will likely be used by Democrats to attack Republicans running in battleground Senate races who voted against the measures.
However, Thursday had Democrats and Republicans virtually divided by party lines on the proposal of universal background checks, with the Republican majority winning out.
The GOP claims be pro-life, but it’s far more pro-gun.
The legislation that Republicans blocked is common sense.
A Washington Post/ABC News poll last month found 82 percent thought gun violence was a very serious or somewhat serious problem.
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And those high ownership rates translate into one of the highest rates of firearm homicides in the world. “So we’ve got some work to do”. In general, though, fewer Americans are dying as a result of gun violence – a shift that began about two decades ago. And his policies would leave us defenseless.
