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Jan 26, 2023 · Is gun control effective? What gun control measures exist at the federal level? What are gun buyback programs and do they work? Where does the U.S. public stand on the issue?
Aug 3, 2023 · Gun control laws are discriminatory and infringe on citizens’ rights. Current gun control laws are frequently aimed at inner city, poor, black communities who are perceived as more dangerous than white gun owners.
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May 27, 2022 · The debate over stricter gun control laws intensifies as details emerge from the Robb Elementary School shooting in Uvalde, Texas.
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In December 2012, a 20-year-old man wearing combat gear and armed with pistols and a semi-automatic rifle forced his way into a school in Newtown, Connecticut, and killed 26 people, including 20 elementary school students [source: Barron]. That event followed two other mass killings in 2012 a July attack on an Aurora, Colorado, movie theater in wh...
A November 2017 Gallup Poll (between the shooting in Las Vegas and the Nov. 5, 2017 mass shooting at a church in Sutherland Springs, Texas) found that 51 percent of Americans want the government to pass new gun laws rather than just focusing on current laws. This was up from 47 percent in Gallup's previous poll in 2012, and the first time that a ma...
But as usual, gun rights lobbyists say such laws would violate Americans' constitutional right to bear arms. They also argue that citizens need weaponry to defend against criminals and the possibility of future government tyranny.
As Wayne LaPierre, executive vice president of the National Rifle Association, warned at a January 2013 press conference: \\"When you hear your glass breaking at 3 a.m. and you call 911, you won't be able to pray hard enough for a gun in the hands of a good guy to get there fast enough to protect you\\" [source: Washington Post]. Some, such as econom...
Jun 7, 2022 · President Biden urged Congress to act and the House is preparing to pass multiple gun control measures. But the Senate is where a compromise must be made. A bipartisan group of lawmakers is ...
Apr 1, 2021 · Gun control is back in the U.S. political debate, in the wake of mass shootings in California, Boulder and Atlanta. Democrats see stricter gun control as a step toward addressing the...
Apr 20, 2021 · The new national survey by Pew Research Center, conducted from April 5-11, 2021 among 5,109 adults, finds that 73% of Democrats consider gun violence to be a very big problem for the country today, compared with just 18% of Republicans who say the same.
