Monday, June 13, 2016

The USA needs gun laws.

This is really good work by the New York Times. Thank you.

It's the guns. They were legally purchased in the USA. These people don't have to go through any difficulty to obtain deadly weapons that cut down citizens of the USA in a matter of seconds.

Now.

Ask yourself where and how many of these guns are on the streets of the USA? I can imagine a lot. So far it is only one gunman.

The people crying about their guns being protected before American lives are sitting in jail after they simply walked into federal land and took over. I am grateful there was no one else in the park at the time. These are the gun they carry, too.




June 12, 2016
By Larry Buchanan, Josh Keller, Richard A. Oppel, Jr. and Daniel Victor

The vast majority of guns (click here) used in 16 recent mass shootings, including two guns believed to be used in the Orlando attack, were bought legally and with a federal background check. At least eight gunmen had criminal histories or documented mental health problems that did not prevent them from obtaining their weapons....

The Guardian wrote this after Sandy Hook. Everyone knows it is the guns, but, guns are a political icon now. How foolish is it to make a deadly weapon become a political icon.

17 December 2016
By Simon Rogers, Rob Grant and Sean Anderson

The AR15 rifle (click here) used in the Newtown massacre is becoming one of America's most popular firearms. How many are there?...

...We don't know how many have been sold, so we have to estimate how many are manufactured each year. A number of manufacturers now predominantly make AR15-style rifles - so if we can work out how many rifles each makes each year and how many are exported, we can get close to a final number....


"Estimating Firearms Traffic Across the US - Mexican Border"
By Topher McDougal, David A. Shirk, Robert Muggah and John H. Patterson
...The volume of firearms crossing the U.S.-Mexican border (click here) is higher than previously assumed: 253,000 firearms (between 106,700 and 426,729) were purchased annually to be trafficked over 2010-2012. this number is starkly higher than the 88,000 firearms (between 35,597 and 152,142) trafficked in 1997-1999, during the federal assault Weapons Ban (aWB);...