Gun sales soar after tragedy, President Obama’s call for stricter gun laws

The man, who works in San Bernardino, perhaps a quarter mile from Inland Regional Center, said he owns multiple firearms and that in recent months has been trying to convince his wife to get a small handgun and apply for a concealed weapon permit.

“When we have shootings like that, it makes people ponder would I want to be there and be helpless”, Stallman said. Guns do not kill people, it is the person pulling the trigger that kills people.

Another U.S. mass shooting committed with powerful but legal guns.

However, all of these types of events-all 355 of them-point to the same things: gun violence in our country is increasing (there were 281 mass shootings in 2014), and our gun laws are not up to par.

Much of the debate over gun regulation founders on this basic truth: The proposals that have mainstream support are unlikely to achieve dramatic results, and more ambitious proposals are practically and politically hopeless. No longer were they just a good organization focused on promoting hunting and gun safety. Somehow your argument that your First Amendment rights override my Second Amendment rights doesn’t hold water with me. I wrongly equated semi-automatic weapons with automatic weapons. We made the decision that we’re going to have guns in our society, with the Second Amendment. Prior to Port Arthur, Australia had experienced 18 mass shootings (more than five people killed). “Why don’t we regulate cars?” Your voice can make a difference. “It’s kind of sad that we’re feeling this fear in our hometown and in our own areas”. We’re up to one gun death every 16 minutes. We have to have the auto registered and have liability insurance in order for it to be legal.

What ails us? Why all the guns and all the violence? In a damning opinion editorial, End the Gun Epidemic in America, the Times wrote: “It is a moral outrage and a national disgrace that civilians can legally purchase weapons created to specifically to kill people with brutal speed and efficiency”. If a gun that you own hurts another, then you are liable, whether you shoot it or not. It turns out you were right. Republican senator and presidential contender Marco Rubio told CNN that “the majority of the people on the no-fly list are often times people that just basically have the same name as somebody else, who doesn’t belong on the no-fly list.” Sen.

Facing certain defeat, Democrats in both chambers unsuccessfully tried forcing votes on legislation that would let the government prohibit firearms sales to people suspected of terror acts. It’s not surprising that they don’t say that, since so many people would find it unspeakably selfish and cruel. “It’s not some of the political posturing that we’re talking about with the refugees-the ability of someone with a French or Belgian passport to come to America without additional screening – if that individual has been to a war zone – we need to correct that”.

Apparently, no, according to the Senate.

Local gun shop owners said there are two factors that are pushing people to buy guns, the San Bernardino shooting that left 14 people dead, and President Barack Obama’s speech Sunday that included his renewed call for more gun control. Ask a group of Americans about gun control, using the phrase “gun control”, and about half will say they don’t like it. But ask them instead about specific gun control proposals and they’re highly supportive of many.