The current conversations about gun control and violence prevention are primarily focused on the guns themselves. Instead, Cooper believes strategies are needed that focus on the people who hold the guns.
The Firearms Policy Coalition is getting the ball rolling with a challenge to New York’s refusal to allow citizens of other states who have carry permits to tote firearms while they’re in the Empire state.
Police in New York want the legal ability to seize firearms during a domestic violence call – even if no
Continuing Japan’s gun control prohibition would require continued self-delusion for a promise of security that never actually arrives. Or, they can realize that the Japanese society’s low violence isn’t due to its gun control laws, but to its social stability.
America’s anti-gun governors are rejecting the clear message voters sent on November 5. Instead, they’re doubling down. Several have announced efforts to “Trump proof” their states before he takes office.
Democrats’ support for a handgun ban has now dropped to the lowest level Gallup has ever measured, 33% (it was 49% last year). Anti-gun groups are now too extreme even for their core constituency.
Even if you think waiting periods are merely symbolic, make these safeguards a reasonable condition of gun ownership, a right that has caused America such staggering loss and bloodshed.
Senate Judiciary Chairman Dick Durbin struck a noticeably different tone than his usually combative anti-Second Amendment style, seeking instead to offer to work with Republicans in the new Congress when majority control flips in January.
“A piece that I really want to underscore is that law enforcement won’t know who has firearms,” Monisha Henley, senior vice president of government affairs for Everytown for Gun Safety, told ABC News.
Chinese citizens have virtually no access to firearms. Yet they seem to have no difficulty carrying out horrific mass killings on a scale equal to those here in the United States.
