We can’t accept this as normal.. The pain is overwhelming. The country has suffered too much.
The truth is that inaction on gun safety is simply no longer an option. It was true after Sandy Hook. It was true after Orlando. And it’s true now, after our nation experienced another senseless tragedy and the deadliest mass shooting in our recent history.
As a former prosecutor, I’ve seen what gun violence does to families and communities. No American should have to face that heartbreak. I know that our great nation can do better. For the sake of our children and grandchildren, we must.
McCaskill's statement is blubbering prose that says nothing. Any specific legislation that you're proposing, Senator?
ReplyDeleteGo ahead, put the nail in your political coffin!
ReplyDeleteIt’s very sad that she and other Democrats would politicize a tragedy before the motive and details are even available.
ReplyDeleteWe need a new Senator in Missouri next November in the worst possible way—/ she HAS to GO!!!
Harvey Hutchinson 303-522-6622 voice&text
No home protection requires a gun that can hit 600 people in 10 minutes.
ReplyDeleteGet out of here Harvey, we all know this is the perfect time to politicize this. Need proof? How about any of the CIVILIZED countries in the world where, unlike America, this doesn't happen on a regular basis.
ReplyDeleteWhen is the time to talk about gun control Harv? Is it when another concert gets shot up? Is it when 10 more schools get shot up? Is it when your kids or grandkids get murdered because you didn't think it was time to "politicize" a purely political issue?
The only reason we don't have real gun regulation is because the NRA is dumping truckloads of money into Washington. Look at Australia, they're doing fine, they had a mass shooting in 1996, they changed their laws and haven't had this issue since. Yet here in America, kneeling during a song is taking freedom of speech to far, but mass murder is the cost of freedom.
>>>before the motive and details are even available.<<<
ReplyDeleteOne man, dozens of apparently legal long guns all apparently legally purchased possessed and transported, many of them apparently legally modified with legal accessories to lay down fire like a squad of infantry, thousands and thousands of rounds of ammo all apparently purchased legally possessed and transported legally...
Which additional details are you waiting on Hervey?
Still hoping for a brown accomplice or two?
Or that the purchases were funded with stolen food stamps?
We need a Barney Fife law. You can have a gun but only one bullet.
ReplyDeleteI think most Pro-Abortion people would agree to a 20-24 month cut off time. Why cant gun advocates agree to some sensible limits on automatic weapons or magazine size? I think its time for the anti-assault groups to start posting photos of gun shot injuries like the anti abortion groups do. Start with Sandy Hook.
ReplyDeleteThe most strict gun control laws are in Chicago.... How's that working?
ReplyDeleteThe liberals are seeing the results of their secular,do your own thing,not my brothers keeper,family destroying socialism....
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ReplyDeletehttps://www.rawstory.com/2017/10/dont-let-gun-nuts-lie-about-chicago-having-the-strictest-gun-laws-in-the-country/
" With no gun stores in Chicago and no background check loopholes for private sales, one thing is clear. The guns being used to kill people on the streets aren't originating in Chicago. They're coming from someplace else.
When politicians and others repeat that ridiculous statement about Chicago's gun laws, it shows how out of touch they are with the problems urban areas face when it comes to gun violence.
When it comes to gun laws, big cities are only as strong as the states that border them. And in Chicago's case, that's Indiana. Thanks to Vice President Mike Pence, the former governor, Indiana has some of the weakest gun laws in the nation.
While Illinois has gone to great lengths to see that background checks are done for all gun purchases, Indiana has done the opposite. To buy a weapon in Illinois, the owner must have a valid firearms owner's identification card, issued by the Illinois State Police.
With no permit or license required to purchase a gun in Indiana, it is incredibly easy for a trafficker to drive across the state line, obtain a gun and use it to commit a homicide on the streets of Chicago.
Those with felony convictions commonly use straw purchases, in which they enlist someone with a clean record to purchase multiple guns and bring them into the city.
Law enforcement officials say 60 percent of the guns confiscated on the streets of Chicago come from Indiana, Wisconsin and Mississippi."
@6:15 Chicago is a piss poor example and you know it. You can't enact gun control in a city surrounded by a country with much looser gun control laws.
ReplyDelete154,cultural changes have desensitized many in society...its the person that kills,the gun is just one means to express sickness.
ReplyDelete615- People in Chicago get shot because they are mostly in areas where drug dealing, theft, and prostitution prevail, not because they went to a concert. And they are not shot all at once, 600 in ten minutes. If you go there and do not partake in these activities, you will be fine.
ReplyDelete135- great points.