As Mass Shootings Plague US, Survivors Mourn Lack of Change

At least 49 people were killed and 53 were injured in the shooting at the Pulse gay club in Orlando over the weekend.

The New York-based 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the law in October, ruling it did not violate the Second Amendment and was not void for vagueness.

A pending cert petition asks the U.S. Supreme Court to review a CT law that bans assault weapons such as the AR-15, the gun used by the Florida man who killed 49 people and injured 53 others at an Orlando nightclub early Sunday in the worst mass shooting in U.S. history. He had access to guns because he lives in America, the country with the highest number of mass killings. As a result, assault rifle sales skyrocket in the wake of each attack. The final tally of victims shot by a lone gunman wielding a pistol and one of those ever-present, ever-available automatic rifles was 103.

Though “it has been a trying 36 hours”, Prentice said, “there is a sense of optimism” within the gun violence prevention movement. “We went through it at Sandy Hook”.

Peter Squires, Professor of Criminology and Public Policy at the University of Brighton, is an expert on gun crime and says this is an issue that many Americans are vociferous about. “It’s what we do to each other that causes these people to get to the point where they feel this is the only option”. Millions were poured in to Sandy Hook.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo has hailed the SAFE Act as a significant piece of gun-safety legislation in the nation.

In December 2012, after an unspeakable tragedy, many gun violence prevention advocates thought their moment had arrived.

At the start of the year, he recommended several measures created to keep guns out of the hands of potentially unsafe people who shouldn’t be allowed to own a deadly weapon.

“One thing we are supposed to do is not give him a damn gun”, said WBZ-TV security analyst Ed Davis, a former Boston Police Commissioner, when asked about the Orlando shooter Omar Mateen, who obtained his weapons after he was interview by the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

“In the last two or three decades the NRA’s advocacy rights position has been winning the day”. Twenty states strengthened gun laws related to domestic violence, and at least 19 states, including Florida and MA, improved laws related to record submissions to databases used in background checks, according to the Law Center. Ana was killed in the tragedy at Sandy Hook. This media-savvy community led the 20-year cultural shift in how Americans view gay people and gay marriage, one of the most successful social-justice movements of modern times. The seller is supposed to ask the buyer if they have a criminal record but they aren’t legally obliged to tell them.

The tightening of Australia’s gun laws was prompted by the worst mass murder in Australian history. “Their transparent head-fakes should scare every American because it will do nothing to prevent…a future attack”. After 9/11, the American people gave up more than a few constitutional rights when the Bush administration, under the USA Patriot Act and various presidential directives, weakened civil liberties for the sake of bolstering US security.

To improve homeland security, the argument goes, USA citizens would be better protected if more restrictive background checks were performed and if people were required to prove “good character”.