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Ann Braden, the leader of Gun Sense Vermont, said she started her grassroots advocacy group to try.
As a society we have a responsibility to look at what laws are on the books and how they are being enforced, Braden said. Its important to recognize how many gun owners are responsible and take safety seriously. My organization is focused on the small fraction of people that most agree should not have access to guns.
Gun Sense Vermont is seeking universal background checks in hopes of keeping violent felons from buying firearms. |
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| Universal background checks would not keep criminals from having guns, just as outlawing drugs hasn't stopped addiction. Keeping so called 'non violent drug users' imprisoned would help. Enforced prosecution of those who (legitimately) fail present background checks would help. Getting Eddie Eagle into your local K-3 school would help. Real consequences for the tiny immoral criminal population that abuse guns would help. Universal background checks, no. They would only infringe on the lawful responsible gun owner. |
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| We'll take one step at a time, and the first is necessarily - given the political realities - very modest. We'll have to start working again to strengthen the law, and then again to strengthen the next law and again and again. Our ultimate goal, total control of handguns, is going to take time. The first problem is to slow down production and sales. Next is to get registration. The final problem is to make possession of all handguns and ammunition (with a few exceptions) totally illegal. Pete Shields, founder of Handgun Control, Inc., New Yorker Magazine, June 26, 1976, pg. 53 |
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