FrumCA

Think you know much about background checks on gun sales? I bet you don't.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JLTMkg1RLW0

Robert Graybeal Loc: Myrtle Beach

The whole country need to know this.
60% are so blind and hard headed they will refuse to believe it.

NeilL Loc: British-born Canadian

Yikes!

Twardlow Loc: Arkansas

Guns, Tears and Republicans
Nicholas Kristof JAN. 7, 2016

(A few random paragraphs from the above story.)

President Obama shed tears on Tuesday as he called for new gun safety measures, and some critics perceived weakness or wimpishness. Really? On the contrary, we should all be in tears that 225,000 Americans have already died of gun violence in his seven years in office.

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Gun advocates say criminals will always have guns, so regulations make no difference. But increasingly we have evidence that this is wrong.

The states with the most restrictive gun laws have the lowest gun death rates (including suicides). Take Massachusetts and New York, which have some of the tightest gun restrictions in America; they have three or four gun deaths per 100,000 inhabitants per year. At the other extreme, two of the states with the most permissive gun regulations are Alaska and Louisiana, and both have gun death rates about five times as high: more than 19 per 100,000 inhabitants.

Republican p**********l candidates should look at the natural experiment that occurred when Missouri eased restrictions on buying handguns. The result was a 25 percent rise in the firearm homicide rate, according to a study in the Journal of Urban Health.

(Snip)

In contrast, Connecticut tightened regulations on buying handguns, and gun homicides there fell by 40 percent, according to the American Journal of Public Health.

(Snip)

There’s no magic wand to solve gun violence in America, but neither is it immutable fate that 32,000 Americans die from firearms each year. We know from the experience of states like Connecticut and Missouri that sensible regulations save lives. And why wouldn’t we want to keep guns from men subject to domestic violence restraining orders if the result is fewer women murdered by jilted boyfriends?