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VA: We must curb gun violence
Submitted by:
Mark A. Taff
Website: http://www.marktaff.com
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From Fort Hood, Texas to Aurora, Colo. to Newtown, Conn., to the Washington Navy Yard to Charleston, S. C., to Orlando, Fla., we have borne witness to far too many mass shootings in our nation. But mass shootings are only a small part of a much larger issue. Each year 32,000 die as a result of gun violence, while another 75,000 are injured.
This is a uniquely American problem. There is no other advanced country with comparable rates of gun violence. We have ample data and evidence to enact effective policy solutions that would make our communities safer, but lawmakers choose instead to give individuals nearly unfettered access to firearms. |
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dasing
(4/17/2017)
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| Don't blame firearms, just the people who criminaly misuse them!!! |
| Comment by:
dasing
(4/17/2017)
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| Don't blame the firearms, just the people who unlawfully misuse them! |
| Comment by:
AFRet
(4/17/2017)
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There is NO such creature as "Gun Violence" it's called CRIMINAL VIOLENCE.
And, we have enough laws on the books now to deal with it, if they are only enforced. |
| Comment by:
PHORTO
(4/17/2017)
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Shut up and siddown, Bobby*. "Gun Violence" is a political buzzword that exists specifically to demonize inanimate objects so the public will accept banning them.
Except, the public isn't listening, Bobby, because they have their own ideas about guns and self-defense, and believe me, they aren't the same as YOURS.
*BTW, we saved a seat for you - in the back of the bus. You remember, Obama said "They can come along for the ride, but they have to sit in back?" How's THAT work for ya? |
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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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