“Three years ago, Texas Rep. Louie Gohmert proposed arming more citizens after the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting in CT where 20 school children and six adult staff members were killed”, the report said.
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SIMON: Do you think the shootings we saw in San Bernardino do represent something different in – forgive me – the mass-shooting scenario…
At this writing, the motives of San Bernardino murderers, Syed Rizwan Farook and Tashfeen Malik, are still being deciphered. Quebec is creating a long-gun registry so at least we’ll know who owns all our guns.
Finally, as it must be constantly reiterated, we’ve done a pretty good job drastically reducing gun violence.
Gun sellers can expect a bountiful Christmas.
It’s obvious to most Canadians that America’s problem isn’t just too many gunmen, it’s too many guns. But it died on the Senate floor when it failed to attract enough support. No matter the magnitude of the nation’s latest gun tragedy, the organization can beat back any suggestion of public policy that might stop or reduce gun violence because that might be seen as a threat to the Second Amendment, which this lobby wears as a shield.
But Earnest conceded the proposals Obama has pushed – expanding background checks or barring people on a federal no-fly from buying guns – would not necessarily have prevented this massacre.
“It’s a controversial notion”, he said, and one the Obama administration has considered and rejected before.
“We’re being told that even though these laws didn’t stop these attacks in these states, somehow they would work in the rest of the country”, he said.
He called more officers to duty and moved some to locations deemed higher priorities because of the recent terror attacks in Paris, which left 130 dead, he said. Dianne Feinstein, D-California, said. They do not press for background checks or tighter gun control laws.
Republicans have repeatedly argued for measures that address mental health issues. Speaker of the House of Representatives, Paul Ryan, on why the GOP will not support legislation to prevent individuals on the no-fly list from purchasing firearms.
Murphy, a career psychologist, has been working on the legislation since the Newtown shooting. “We should consider reforms to improve our mental health laws”. “They could protect themselves if they’d had guns”.
“If we had a disease that was killing as many people as our guns in our country, we would devote a lot more resources to make sure we had the best data, the best research to know what is most affected”. The level of gun violence has forced the issue.
Easy access to guns lies at the heart of the problem. We are dealing with the ability of people who are sympathetic with the grievances of terrorists to easily acquire weapons more suited to war than hunting or self-defense. Again, large majorities of people support background checks for all gun purchases (closing the gun show and Internet sales loopholes).
Meanwhile, the Centers for Disease and Prevention (CDC) records reveal about 1.3 percent of fatalities in the United States were due to firearms.
Congress has refused to fund the research for the past 20 years because the National Rifle Association fears that it would produce anti-gun propaganda. Christie, who in the past signed several gun control measures in New Jersey, recently vetoed a bill that would have made it harder for those accused or convicted of domestic violence from getting a gun. How is that related to the incidence of gun violence?
Even in California, advocates for stricter gun control say there are holes in the law. According to a tally maintained by ShootingTracker.com, there have been 355 mass shootings in the United States this year – an average of more than one a day.
There may also be ways to make guns less unsafe to store.
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Ivey would also pursue bans on assault rifles and high capacity magazines. (In fact, there was a federal assault weapon ban in 1994 that lapsed in 2004). The National Rifle Association trots out board member and 70s rock has-been Ted Nugent to say “if it was up to me, if you uttered the word ‘gun control, ‘ we’d put you in jail.” or something equally offensive. His executive orders aimed to increase prosecutions of gun crimes, encourage reporting of those crimes, and to trace all guns used to commit a crime.
