Why won’t America change its gun laws?
If we’re trying to prevent carnage like that of Orlando, we need to be vigilant not only about infiltration by the Islamic State, and not only about USA citizens poisoned into committing acts of terrorism. What if greatly limiting handguns, or using available technology so only the registered owner could fire it, could save just 1,000 of the estimated 21,175 firearm suicides or just 100,000 of the estimated 836,000 ER visits from self-inflicted gun wounds in the most recent Centers for Disease Control and Prevention data?
Obama has had to respond to mass shootings in various locations: military bases, a cinema, a temple, an elementary school, a Jewish community centre, a church, and now a nightclub. “The California Legislature has a package of bills dealing with gun violence, and the nation is looking for leadership”.
Gun sales are sky-rocketing, as Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and pretty much everyone else in charge of America says two things: they can’t or won’t protect Americans from Muslim terrorists, but they want to take away the most effective tool for law-abiding Americans to protect themselves. Eight of 10 Democrats support bills limiting access to firearms along with almost six out of 10 Republicans.
Forget your asinine gun control, do your job and engage in Islamic terrorist control.
“Nobody will protect your Second Amendment like Donald John Trump”, the billionaire said.
Public outrage and the concern of lawmakers anxious about the safety of everyday citizens has prompted the senate to vote on four gun control measures Monday. Palin added if Obama won’t hold all Muslims accountable for terrorists, he shouldn’t hold all gun owners responsible for mass murderers. One morning when I was 10, we awoke at dawn to hear our chickens squawking frantically and saw a fox trotting away with one of our hens in its mouth. This is not an issue we can continue to bypass or ignore, lives are at risk each day we don’t implement stricter gun policies and parameters in place.
California Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom is promoting a ballot measure that make numerous proposed bills into law, if they can’t pass the state legislature.
UNITED STATES-We’ve had this discussion before, and yet again, we are back to having the discussion yet again about another mass shooting, this time, one of the deadliest in American History.
There’s new evidence that the Orlando suspect was on Facebook pledging allegiance to ISIS during the shooting.
Surrounded with enough firepower to start a small war – everything from the old bolt-action Mauser rifles with which Germany conquered France in 1939 to the futuristically sleekly menacing Tavors carried by the fascist security police in The Hunger Games movies – the firearms aficionados who gathered for a gun show Saturday at the Miccosukee casino nonetheless felt a little bit like an endangered species. Cox oversees a $30 million budget to run political campaigns, and in the 2014 midterm elections more than half of the $28 million spent went towards opposing candidates who were not pro-gun enough.