Newtown victim’s mom pens open letter after Orlando shooting

To reduce the gun violence that kills more than 90 Americans and injures hundreds more each day, we must demand our lawmakers act and work to keep guns out of unsafe hands by making sure that every gun sale includes a background check. But shootings, with the exception of the 2012 Sandy Hook massacre, don’t generally affect views on the Second Amendment, the Post notes.

The hosts of CBS This Morning, the network’s morning television program, lamented Thursday how tougher gun control laws have not been enacted in the aftermath of recent shootings to restrict the ability of some Americans to access firearms. But their memories shouldn’t stop there, she said.

There is, however, a ban on fully automatic guns, which has been in place since 1986. But the people who built their lives here aren’t letting the violence perpetrated by Adam Lanza in 2012, or anyone else in any other town, affect them. Liberals argue that legal restrictions on gun ownership could save lives, while conservatives say that tougher gun laws would do nothing to change the behaviour of violent criminals and that tougher gun controls wouldn’t have prevented the Orlando shooting. Democrats in the Senate said Monday that they will renew their efforts to ban gun sales to suspected terrorists. “Those are the big changes”.

“We have made it so easy in this country, for anyone – any one”, she said. “That’s such a risky period of time”.

A gunman at a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida killed almost 50 people Sunday and injured at least as many more.

The US has more privately owned guns than any other nation on Earth: in fact, there are more privately owned guns in America than there are adult Americans.

“We really need legislators to step up and step away from the NRA’s message and to really give their attention to protecting the public”, said Muenster. I think that it is important for politicians to interject that word into discussions as soon as possible because it somehow dilutes their own culpability. This is causing a lot of sympathy.

“We’re allowed to put them on the no-fly list”. And we hope they reach out to people like my organization. “We have to decide if that is the type of country we want to be”.

“Thoughts and prayers are wonderful, they’re not enough”, Barden said.

It is not a particularly useful gun for hunting or home defense. “It’s underestimated just how effective it is”.

Michele Gay’s 7-year-old daughter, Josephine, was also killed in the attack on the elementary school.

Congress “will not only do nothing, it’s not going to talk about this because they have no desire to even debate the issue, to hold hearings, much less to consider legislation”, Spitzer said. I was reliving being one of the family members in wait.

After about an hour of searching, I found the gun I had come to get: A Glock 42. “On the gun issue she’s the strongest person out there”.

Gun rights advocates chafe at the association between AR-15 style rifles and assault weapons. The prohibition expired in 2004 and Congress did not renew it. MA enforces a statewide ban on the sort of weapon used in the Orlando shootings, she said. I was at my favorite gay bar, Metropolitan, when, unbeknown to us, the killing began.