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By LISA MASCARO WASHINGTON©2024 GPlusMedia Inc.
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Haaa Nemui
No
SuperLib
Dems will propose increased restrictions or loophole closures, and the GOP will vote against all of it.
So, no.
OnTheTrail
Repeal 2nd amendment, essentially shut the boarders down (hasn't worked well for drugs or people but would be required), make the 400 million guns illegal and do Australian buy backs.
You might have some impact on this type of shooting, the weekend murder sprees we see will not be impacted, those guns are already illegally owned so won't be turned in. I have a .22 rifle in fine working order that is about 100 years old, so waiting out the illegally owned guns to break will likely be a while.
All the other measures discussed are essentially window dressing.
Blacklabel
They will do nothing. despite Schumer trying to play politics on it again.
bass4funk
Since millions of their constituents are gun owners, more bolstering. Manchin and Sinema are already breaking away from Chuck on this.
The Avenger
Open up juvenile court records and school records and include them in background checks for gun purchases. A kid just turning 18 is not going to have an adult record but may have a lengthy school record that includes acts of violence and/or serious mental illness. We need to stop sealing these records.
Bob Fosse
That’s it. Bought and paid for. Spineless greed. MTG has the nerve to tweet 'We don't need more gun control. We need to return to God.’
Will be dismissed as tone deaf or cheered by her idiot supporters but it’s actually far worse than that. This backwards, greed driven idiocy will surely see a lot more kids ‘return to god’.
bass4funk
Greed? Here we go with that nonsense again.
She has the right to say what she wants. We have to listen to Schumer and him politicizing this issue….again, don’t like the guy, but he can say what he wants, that goes for MTG as well.
The point is, the left can get angry and as emotional as they want, but if they scream about guns, guns, guns and nothing else, the right and other gun owners are just not going to engage and why should they? They don’t even want to talk about the shooter and what motivated him to do what he did and more importantly, how to l, at the very least minimize any future threats or attacks from re-occurring. If these people were truly sincere they would talk about that.
WA4TKG
Just what do you think you're going to do?;
start writing a new Constitution?...and when you do that, it will be time to leave North America.
Happy Day
Gun control didn't prevent Buffalo and hasn't prevented skyrocketing murders in New York and Chicago.
Bob Fosse
Your failure to see anything outside of right or left is your biggest flaw.
The world is angry, parents of dead kids are angry, I’m angry.
Explain why this only happens in America. Why?
bass4funk
No, you keep bringing it up, I was just responding.
I am angry as well, but I know full well there are many reasons and various complexity to this issue and it needs to be properly debated and dealt with and not in any emotional matter and right now the Democrats are too emotional you cannot have a decent conversation with them, because for them the only thing that they want to talk about is guns, they don’t wanna talk about the children, they don’t want to talk about the shooter, they want to talk about guns and as long as guns are the issue for the left and nothing else, there will never be any discussion
Gun violence is not an American only issue. As for school violence, I think one way how to stop it first and foremost is to have an armed police officer at every potential troubled public school. Let’s start off there as far as the deterrence is concerned and then work our way through the issue
Desert Tortoise
Among the three dozen most developed nations, those who are members of the OECD the only other nation with similar or greater gun violence is Mexico thanks to the narcos feeding America's drug habit and the ready availability of guns just across the border in the US.
The rest of the OECD nations have a fraction of the number of deaths per 100,000 population by firearms. In some ways the US with its combination of religious fundamentalism and gun violence more closely resembles the tribal regions of Pakistan, Somalia, Chad and Niger. Rational, civilized people don't walk around carrying firearms. It is people fed a steady diet of fear and hate who do that. We have a few great examples of that ugly combination trolling this very discussion.
Bob Fosse
Played like a fiddle.
sethwright
"Will they act?" ... Lol. Don't be ridiculous.
US government is completely broken and don't care what people need or want. When was the last major reform enacted due to popular opinion ???
venze
Will Congress act on guns after Hook, Buffalo, Uvalde?
Every time after a mass massacre of defenseless children/people, US Congress & leaders immediately start to make lots of loud noises, whining pleas & promises.
When such thunderstorm acting is over and dies a natural death, things return to square one..