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Related: About this forumCrack down on 'bad apple' gun dealers
(CNN)Charleston, South Carolina. Chattanooga, Tennessee. Lafayette, Louisiana. What do they have in common? Deaths of innocent people from guns.
For many Americans, the profound sadness of mass killings this summer in these cities is compounded by the frustrating sense that these events are being met with nothing more than hand-wringing and empty rhetoric.
This kind of bloodshed has become an accepted fact of American life, facilitated by an irresponsible corporate gun lobby and too many politicians, particularly Republican leadership in Congress that refuses to do the will of the American people. Yet, despite the polarizing politics that define this issue, there is still much that can be done to address the scourge of gun violence in America.
Dysfunction in Washington is no excuse for inaction in our cities, towns, states and communities. With 89 Americans killed every day by guns, and another 300 injured, we must act now to dramatically reduce gun injuries and deaths in America.
http://www.cnn.com/2015/08/13/opinions/gallego-gross-gun-dealers/
For many Americans, the profound sadness of mass killings this summer in these cities is compounded by the frustrating sense that these events are being met with nothing more than hand-wringing and empty rhetoric.
This kind of bloodshed has become an accepted fact of American life, facilitated by an irresponsible corporate gun lobby and too many politicians, particularly Republican leadership in Congress that refuses to do the will of the American people. Yet, despite the polarizing politics that define this issue, there is still much that can be done to address the scourge of gun violence in America.
Dysfunction in Washington is no excuse for inaction in our cities, towns, states and communities. With 89 Americans killed every day by guns, and another 300 injured, we must act now to dramatically reduce gun injuries and deaths in America.
http://www.cnn.com/2015/08/13/opinions/gallego-gross-gun-dealers/
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Crack down on 'bad apple' gun dealers (Original Post)
SecularMotion
Aug 2015
OP
Any comments on the bad apple gun law enforcement agencies that keep a database up to date?
Nuclear Unicorn
Aug 2015
#2
pipoman
(16,038 posts)1. You people and your idiotic suicide numbers....no credibility...
Nuclear Unicorn
(19,497 posts)2. Any comments on the bad apple gun law enforcement agencies that keep a database up to date?
ileus
(15,396 posts)3. Guns kill 89 people a day...why do we let these guns out and about....bad bad guns.
These guns listen about as well as our new black German Shepard.
Eleanors38
(18,318 posts)4. Talk about "hand-wringing and empty rhetoric."
He lists four mass murders, then bemoans "countless" tragedies.
I wonder if the OP realizes that 8 people in one family were murdered in Houston a couple of weeks ago. Murdered with a gun, so it should have qualified as "tragedy" for controllers. But VERY LITTLE was said about this true mass murder in DU. I guess a poor family in a Houston ward doesn't trip the compassion scale of controllers as some idiot killing people in a theater.