“Having been connected to what used to be the worst mass shooting in America’s history and witnessing the devastation it caused across Virginia” said CSGV Virginia State Director Lori Haas, whose daughter was shot and injured in the 2007 massacre at Virginia Tech University. The suspect, 29-year-old Omar Mateen, allegedly was upset about seeing two men kissing in Miami, and his father said that might be related to the attack. He also said if his colleagues on Capitol Hill don’t take the opportunity to do anything, Congress would be “complicit in the next killing”.
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There were 296 mass shootings by the time of Wasserman Schultz’s tweet according to the Mass Shooting Tracker, but 122 of those incidents resulted in no casualties.
More than 32,000 people from gun violence each year.
There are an estimated 300 million guns in America – nearly one for everyone in the population. Deirdre then went on to compare the United Kingdom’s gun laws and people to the United States’.
Similar to previous mass shootings in the US, outcry over what happened in Orlando has sparked a renewed call for gun control legislation.
Similarly, there is research showing that the more gun laws a state has, the fewer gun deaths there are. It could be that low numbers of gun owners in a state mean less opposition to gun laws, and the low rate of gun ownership mean less gun violence. These countries have been called by Jim Young, as “more advanced”. Among Republicans, 48 percent support such a proposal.
This weekend in Orlando illustrates the high price that Americans continue to pay for the their leader’s failure to pass stronger gun laws.
The President has vowed to take executive action to increase background checks on people buying guns.
More than 2,000 people on the FBI’s list have legally purchased weapons since 2004, according to a 2015 U.S. Government Accountability Office report. That detail led Obama and Hillary Clinton, the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, to talk about the availability of such weapons.
“To actively to do nothing is a decision as well”.
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Other celebrities have also come out in favor of stricter gun laws.
