Senate kills effort to block terrorists from buying guns

Another day, another ghastly shooting in America.

Despite having the largest population of any state, California accounted for just 6.5 percent of the country’s mass shootings.

The transfer of the gun will be blocked if a court determines that the person wanting to buy the gun has committed or will commit an act of terrorism. Gun violence is an injustice against the American people, and Washington’s failure to address it is appalling and inexcusable.

Democrats also talk about mental health issues at a higher rate than Republicans. If all the tweets expressing condolences were instead directed at state lawmakers, demanding better gun laws, insisting that our leaders stand up to the gun lobby and fight for the smart gun laws that their constituents overwhelmingly support, we could see new laws on the books in a matter of weeks, saving countless lives from shootings like the ones that have torn our communities apart this year.

We routinely construct policies that reduce the toll of deadly products around us. It’s what we do with toy guns (orange tips). Switzerland has guns everywhere because almost all men spend many years as part-time members of the armed forces (it’s said that Switzerland doesn’t have an army; it is an army). “Or at least to show people we are trying to make a difference”.

The Toomey-Manchin bill would expand background checks to gun sales at gun shows and over the Internet.

“It’s not just taking the guns away but it’s about increasing regulations”.

“Let’s do a bipartisan legislation saying no one on the terrorist watch list can buy a gun“.

Before the vote, 2 NEWS spoke with both Republican Rob Portman and Democrat Sherrod Brown about what can be done to stop mass shootings.

While Republicans in Congress resist the most basic steps to curb gun access by violent offenders, the public is much more reasonable. Currently, the checks are only required for transactions from licensed gun dealers.

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. Only 29 percent of gun owners reported that the NRA represented their views, with 62 percent agreeing that the NRA was “out of line with them”. “What’s different about America is that we have the loosest gun laws than any other country”. As a farm kid growing up in rural OR, I received a. 22 rifle for my 12th birthday and took an NRA safety course that, as I recall, came with a one-year membership. Many Republicans and Americans in general believe more guns is the answer. He did not speak on the background-check proposal when it came up for a vote. To his credit, Rep. Tim Murphy, R-Pa., has introduced a bill that would improve our disastrous mental health system, perhaps reducing the number of people who snap and turn to violence. Although the contexts differ, and we don’t yet know all the details behind this latest shooting, one common theme runs through all these tragedies: our laws make it appallingly easy for unsafe individuals to get a gun to act out anger, or racism or fanatical beliefs.

It’s not clear what policy, if any, could have prevented the killings in San Bernardino.

“Congress needs to look in the mirror and ask ourselves if we are going to continue to let special interest groups dictate how we live and how we die in America”, Virginia Democratic Rep. Gerry Connolly told Mashable.