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Opinion: Here's an Easy Way to Improve Gun Safety
By not in system - AOL NewsSince the Tucson, Ariz., tragedy, many people have renewed calls for more gun control measures. But there's already a perfectly good law on the books that could improve gun safety in this country right now. Congress, with the president's support, just needs to fully fund it. Some background: The FBI's National Instant Check System, or NICS, was created under the 1993 Brady Act to provide information to gun dealers on whether a buyer is prohibited from possessing a firearm. The system has processed more than 121 million checks since it began in 1998 and has denied close to 2 million ...
Opinion: Gun Control Emotions vs. Gun Control Facts
By not in system - AOL NewsJust 24 hours after the shooting in Tucson, politicians were calling for more gun control. And the drumbeat has continued. On Sunday, Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., called for using the information supplied on people's applications to join the military to determine whether they will be banned from buying guns. Sens. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., and Richard Lugar, R-Ind., promised a new push for renewing at least part of the federal assault weapons ban. The previous week had been filled with calls for everything from gun show regulations to a thousand-foot gun-free zone around politicians. But ...
Palin to Keynote Gun and Hunting Convention in Nevada
By Luisita Lopez Torregrosa - Politics DailySarah Palin, who took a pummeling this week in the heated debate over guns following the mass shootings in Tucson, will make a keynote address to a gun convention later this month. Coming off what some critics call her "worst week," Palin has had little success fending off accusations that she had directly or indirectly helped fuel the vitriolic and violent climate that some say may have contributed to the shootings that left six dead and 14 wounded, including Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, a moderate Democrat who represents Arizona's Eighth District. Palin's speech is expected to focus on "her past ...
The Right Tones Down the Rhetoric
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Opinion: Will the Tucson Massacre Change Anything?
By Paul Wachter - AOL NewsNothing. Nothing at all. That's the likely -- no, the certain -- outcome of the national conversation that continues days after the slaughter in Tucson, Ariz., that left six dead and 13, including the apparent main target, Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, wounded. Politicians, law enforcement officials and pundits have been trying to unpack the combustible mix of factors that allegedly led suspect Jared Loughner to open fire, and what steps could have been taken to prevent it. Mental illness appears to be high on the list of the former, and tighter gun control laws high on the latter. But what's ...
Giffords Shooting Raises Questions About Guns and Mental Illness
By Andrea Stone - AOL NewsWASHINGTON -- It takes a lot to be considered too crazy to own a gun in Arizona. As authorities investigate the mass shooting that killed six people and left Rep. Gabrielle Giffords critically wounded, it appears clear that a growing list of troubling warning signs would not have prohibited suspect Jared Loughner from buying the Glock 19 semiautomatic pistol he is accused of using in the attack. Gun-control advocates say the 22-year-old Loughner was technically within his rights to buy the weapon. And that's why they say stricter background checks and a new strategy for keeping guns out of ...
The Giffords Shooting of Course Has Everyone Talking About Gun Control
By Torie Bosch - AOL NewsAs the chaos surrounding U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords' shooting begins to settle, the echo chamber is filling with talk of gun control. And one of the details from the massacre fueling the passionate debate is that suspected shooter Jared Loughner allegedly used a 33-round magazine during the rampage. The clip had been banned under the federal assault weapons ban when the law was in effect from 1994 to 2004, but Congress decided not to renew it when it expired in 2004. Now, some lawmakers are calling for new gun restrictions. Sen. Frank Lautenberg, D-N.J., and Rep. Carolyn McCarthy, D-N.Y., ...
Gun Control Debate: Why Do We Make Gun Violence So Easy?
By not in system - AOL NewsThe only thing worse than slowly watching a shooting unfold on television is being a part of one. Nearly four years after surviving the worst school shooting in America -- the Virginia Tech massacre of April 16, 2007 -- and trying to live a "normal" life, I sat there Saturday, stunned, angry and saddened as the nauseating details of another mass murder unfolded before my eyes. Opposing View Political Opportunists Swarm In After Giffords Tragedy I sat there as the uncontrollable feelings that come from the shock and trauma of a normal day morphing into madness ...
Gun Control Debate: Political Opportunists Swarm In
By not in system - AOL NewsThe horrible attack that has left U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords seriously wounded and six others dead has not brought out the best in many people. Ugly political opportunism looks to have led many into making statements they will soon regret. Within hours without knowing anything about the attacker's background or motives, many started blaming Sarah Palin and the tea party. For instance, New York Times columnist Paul Krugman wrote that Giffords was a target because "she's a Democrat who survived what was otherwise a GOP sweep in Arizona, precisely because the Republicans nominated a tea party ...
How's That '2nd Amendment Remedies' Thing Working Out for Ya?
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