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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.

On Friday, February 15, a meteor exploded over Russia, sending fiery meteorites into seven crowded cities. The worst hit was the city of Chelyabinsk. The Russian Academy of Sciences estimates that the original meteor weighed around 10 tons and was traveling at about 33,000 mph when it entered the Earth’s atmosphere. I found this news from here.

I hope to have peace within their country.

My sympathy goes to the victims and to their families.