Can't believe a journal in 2016 published a study on gun laws based on 1990 data. That's before the Brady Bill, the Assault Weapons Ban, Heller and plenty of state and local level changes to gun laws.
And gender reveal parties.
I’m saying words against violence spoken by people without much power have limited impact in a violent country in which guns are plenty.
The real gender reveal parties are the ones being banned by legislatures as we speakAt a minimum let's start calling them biological sex reveal parties.
Yep. People are always going to make bad decisions. But guns are massive magnifiers of those bad decisions, so we need to reduce access to guns, and there are many popular ways to do so (background checks, permits, reduced magazine capacity, red flag laws, etc)
“We shouldn’t have to go through this,” Hagaman said. “Once was devastating, but this is just unreal. It’s just -- I can’t put it into words. The saving grace though is the community has come together in support, both mentally, physically, spiritually. And so, we certainly want to let the community know that we know they love us.”
The sheriff also spoke about the initial call for a welfare check at the home.
“You know, he was waiting for the officers,” Hagaman said. “We had had an issue with him over the weekend.”
When asked if he believed his deputies were ambushed, the sheriff said, “No doubt. No doubt at all.”
and keeping them out of the hands of 15 year olds
Yep. Fewer guns will help with that, but aggressively charging adult owners of guns when kids use them to shoot someone will also help.
I'm not so sure that would make a difference. I'm all for safe storage laws etc. but more for safety against accidental shootings and suicide. The guns doing the damage on the streets are not situations where some kid got dad's gun. It's more likely that the gun was stolen or legally purchased, and then sold/traded on the streets several times before it got into the hands of the shooter. At least that's what I've read on the subject, not a personal participant in the underground gun trade.
ETA: I think fewer guns would definitely help, the post was in reference to the part of the sentence about charging adult owners.
They really should have sent some social workers to conduct the welfare check at the home of the mentally unstable individual.