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    Ban All Automatic & Semi-automatic Rifles!

    Published by The Huffington Post

    Ban All Automatic & Semi-automatic Rifles!

    • Gun Control Might Not Have Stopped The WDBJ Shooter. That's Not The Point.

    • Research still shows that new laws would save lives.

    Jonathan Cohn, Senior National Correspondent, The Huffington Post
    Nick Wing, Senior Viral Editor, The Huffington Post

    Posted: 08/27/2015 10:40 PM EDT
    Would stricter gun laws have saved the lives of Alison Parker and Adam Ward? Probably not.

    Would stricter gun laws have saved the lives of many other people? Probably.

    That’s a fair reading of the latest research -- and something to remember now that Wednesday’s killing of the two television journalists, during a live interview, has politicians and pundits talking about gun violence again.

    So far, the debate has played out in a familiar fashion. From the White House, Press SecretaryJosh Earnest renewed the administration’s call for “commonsense” gun measures, such as extending federal background checks to private gun sales and limiting access to assault weaponry. Via Twitter, Hillary Clinton, former secretary of state and current front-runner for the Democratic presidential nomination, said “we must act to stop gun violence, and we cannot wait any longer:"

    "Heartbroken and angry. We must act to stop gun violence, and we cannot wait any longer. Praying for the victims' families in Virginia. -H"

    Probably the most impassioned plea for government action came from Andy Parker, Alison’s father, during an interview with CNN: “There has to be a way to force politicians that are cowards and in the pockets of the [National Rifle Association] to come to grips and make sense -- have sensible laws so that crazy people can't get guns.”

    The opponents of gun legislation also reacted to the shooting, with every major Republican presidential candidate expressing sympathy and offering prayers. But in between the words of solace, some offered warnings about the dangers of new firearms legislation. “It’s not the guns; it’s the people who are committing these crimes,” Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), a leading GOP candidate, told an audience in New Hampshire. “What law in the world could have prevented him from killing them?”

    Conservative media outlets like the National Review had stronger responses, bemoaning the “tired and opportunistic gun control agenda” and arguing that the kind of legislation now under consideration in Congress probably would not have stopped the suspected killer, Vester Lee Flanagan, from getting a weapon.

    About the specific circumstances of Wednesday's killing, these conservatives have a point. Law enforcement officials have told media outlets that Flanagan used a Glock pistol without a high-capacity magazine -- and that he bought the weapon from a licensed gun store, after passing a federal background check. A letter that Flanagan apparently faxed to ABC News earlier in the week suggested he planned the shooting in advance, while reports of his past behavior toward co-workers raise the possibility that he may have had some mental health problems.

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    But the video of Parker and Ward’s slaying, which played over and over on social media, merely made vivid something that happens all the time, even though few Americans see it. On Wednesday alone, at least 13 other people died from gunshots, according to data compiled by the Gun Violence Archive, a not-for-profit corporation that tracks shootings around the nation. In 2013, the last year for which federally collected data is available, 33,636 people in the U.S. died.


    AFP VIA GETTY IMAGE
    A project supervisor with a local security firm holds up an armalite rifle similar to the one used in the Port Arthur massacre and which was handed in for scrap in Melbourne after Australia banned all automatic and semi-automatic rifles in the aftermath of the Port Arthur shooting.


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    Re: Ban All Automatic & Semi-automatic Rifles!

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    Published on Aug 27, 2015
    Mark Hamill, a.k.a. Luke Skywalker, tweeted a pro-gun control message in response to the televised shooting of TV news reporters. Conservative twitter predictably lashed out. Cenk Uygur, host of the The Young Turks, breaks it down. Tell us what you think in the comment section below.

    "Actor Mark Hamill got a lesson in right-wing fragility when he spoke out in favor of gun control in the wake of the murder of two TV journalists in Virginia on Wednesday...

    Hamill was referring to sweeping gun-safety laws that went into effect in Australia after the 1996 Port Arthur massacre, in which one man armed with a semi-automatic rifle killed 35 people and injured dozens more in a single killing spree.

    In the wake of that incident, the Australian government enacted the National Firearms Agreement, making automatic and semi-automatic rifles and pump-action shotguns illegal.

    A national gun buy-back program netted more than 640,000 weapons.

    Since then, shooting deaths in the country have plummeted. Nonetheless, U.S. gun advocates see the Australian program as anathema and refuse to think of it as anything other than a tyrannical government’s means of seizing absolute control over the populace.”*

    Read more here: https://www.rawstory.com/2015/08/fckin...
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    Re: Ban All Automatic & Semi-automatic Rifles!

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    Is Walmart Move A Victory For Gun Control?
    BY Aaron Wysocki

    https://www.tytnetwork.com/2015/09/0...r-gun-control/

    Walmart announced today that they would no longer sell the AR15 rifle, the civilian version of the M16. The AR15 was used in multiple mass shootings, including the DC Sniper and Sandy Hook. The move is a step in the right direction for the giant retailer, but how big of an impact will it actually have? John Iadarola, host of Think Tank, delivers his Final Judgment on Walmart’s gun sales.

    What do you think of the move by Walmart? Will this prevent even a few gun deaths? Let us know in the comments below.

    Watch more Final Judgment here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list…
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