yvettePine 10 Posted April 24, 2013 Previous Arizona State Representative Giffords and her husband, previous astronaut Mark Kelly, have launched a gun control initiative that seeks to accept the powerful gun lobby and challenge today's gun laws, which the couple believes are too lenient. Gun control initiative announced While interviewing with ABC, Giffords and Kelly made the statement. It has been two years since Giffords was in Tucson and was shot in the head. Giffords is really upset with all the gun violence and is sick of it as a gun owner herself. Since her shooting, the country has dealt with other shooting incidents, including the large one in CT and the other large one in Colorado. The effort hopes to encourage responsible hand gun ownership and more solutions to fixing the issue. Americans for Responsible Solutions, the name of it, encourages elected officials to stand up and make a change. More challenging background checks There will be mental health checks for buyers and background checks for private gun sales if the group gets its way. It will get money to lobby for regulation to make it harder to get guns. The National Rifle Association will fight against the effort very hard and has a lot of cash to battle with. The NRA spent 11 times more on lobbying than all gun control lobby groups combined last year, according to Reuters. In a piece in USA Today, Giffords wrote, "Until now, the gun lobby's political contributions, advertising and lobbying have dwarfed spending from anti-gun violence groups." Attempting to decrease violence After 20 children as young as six years old and six adult teachers were murdered at the school shooting in Newton, the nation may begin needing a ban on guns. To be able to reduce gun violence, President Obama and Vice President Joe Biden are looking into ways to reduce gun violence. This may be as simple as better background checks for gun purchases and a national database of gun sales or as tough as a ban on all assault weapons and high capacity clips. Cost of guns growing On the other hand, consumer gun sales have soared since the country's renewed interest in gun control, states the FBI. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Minutemen 10 Posted April 24, 2013 America isn't england or germany. Its the only place on earth with the right to keep and bear arms and when the leftwing has such a big problem with that they are free to leave. Go to england, germany or even japan where guns are totaly banned for citizens. Meanwhile Humvee's rolling through boston and police is geared up like they would roll into falludscha but Obama says weapons of war don't belong on our streets. Yeah, an AK belongs in the hands of soldiers who execute civilians who can't fight back because they bought into what the establishment demagoge Big O says. Hey i'am sure many of you saw the FSP Russia show on youtube. Guess what, the producer was execited in his office and the guy who acts as the russian got arrested. They realy going to hammer us down untill the secound revolution starts. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Dwarden 1125 Posted April 24, 2013 even if you ban the guns by tomorrow it would not change the amount on black market and obtained with criminal intent ... the problem lays often in education , oversight, security , state of economy and country in overall and so on ... in moment you have economy crisis or person has health and mental crisis these bad events bound to happen in countries with strong and strict gun regulation (or even ban) ... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
max power 21 Posted April 24, 2013 There is a reason why there is no US gun debate allowed in the US politics thread. I'm not implying that you should have had foreknowledge, but... Too OT for OT, too much tendency to get heated. Closing. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
