Obama repeated calls for tougher gun control measures after Wednesday’s mass shooting. A mass shooting is one that leaves four or more people wounded or dead. Nonetheless, its political significance was unmistakable.
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Joe Sestak said in a release that either Toomey “lacked the courage” to bring his bill back on his own or “his true conviction remains the same as when he said ‘my idea of gun control is a steady aim, ‘ ” citing a comment the senator made in 2010. I’m open to suggestions. We must take action to stop gun violence now. So what did you have in mind? That’s why we’ve got to have a federal approach and why a really important place to start is by cracking down on gun trafficking across state lines.
“Praying for those impacted by the shooting in California today”, Mike Huckabee said. “The gun lobby. It is time for us to say we are going to have comprehensive background checks, we are going to close the gun show loopholes”, Hillary Clinton said during a campaign trip in Orlando. It’s also already illegal. We need to do more than just tweet sympathy-we need to force our leaders to pass the smart gun laws that the research has proven again and again save lives. It’s an epidemic that must be addressed head-on and that means keeping guns out of the hands of people who should not have guns.
SE: The San Bernardino shooters were not on the terror watch list. And laws that allow for the temporary confiscation of a person’s guns if that person is found to be in a state of mental duress might also stem gun deaths. And the NRA is now backing a bill that would strengthen background checks to incentivize local law enforcement to enter those adjudicated mentally ill into the database system (you’re welcome!).
No one law will cover all bases.
A police SWAT team searches a church during a manhunt after a mass shooting in San Bernardino, California, on December 2, 2015.
Between 2000 and 2014, there were 33 mass shootings in Argentina, Australia, Canada, China, England, Germany, Finland, Israel, Mexico, Norway, Russia, South Africa and Switzerland combined. So why aren’t you just advocating for that?
It’s what we should do with real guns. “Or at least to show people we are trying to make a difference”. Which guns? Whose guns?
According to extensive data collected and analyzed by Mother Jones, not a single mass shooting in the last 30 years was stopped by an armed civilian. Not every shooting is preventable. It supported the first major federal gun law in 1934 and ultimately backed the 1968 Gun Control Act.
Countries like the United Kingdom and Australia have tightened laws on gun control and largely eliminated this issue.
“Gun violence is a crisis of epidemic proportions in our nation”. The fact that a single solution isn’t 100 percent ideal is no excuse for doing nothing. He did not speak on the background-check proposal when it came up for a vote.
Minutes earlier, the Senate killed a rival plan by Sen. We don’t spend less money on mental health than other countries. This would be a huge help.
“I think we are reaching a tipping point”, Sen.
Democrats may find Republican allies on another issue raised Thursday: mental health reform.
That’s also the type of gun that Mark Anthony Gonzalez used to kill Bexar County Sheriff Sgt. Kenneth Vann in 2011. Prayer should not be dismissed as meaningless.
My thoughts and prayers are with the shooting victims and their families in San Bernardino.
KB: I prayed yesterday for the victims and their families and I believe that prayer is powerful. As we have seen, many of these attacks would still have happened even if our proposal was on the books.
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Krystal Marie Ball is a former MSNBC anchor and 2010 candidate for Congress. S.E. Cupp is a CNN political commentator and the host of S.E. Cupp’s Outside With Insiders on CNN.com.
