Senator Grassley's status as a Grandfather has no brevity to the gun control debate. If he is saying he is willing to put his role in the hearing on the head of his Grandchildren as sacrificial lambs to the NRA he is out of line.
Pulse of constituents is not what this is about. What needs to be done is what these hearings are about. Senator Grassley's opening statement is very misleading to his allegiance to the best outcomes of the people of this nation. We know for a fact, the diverse and loose gun laws across the country is a danger to the people of the USA as well as the countries at our borders. Where there is gun access in one state and not in the other it provides danger to those people.
Video games are an issue, but, it is not the only issue.
Just because Columbine occurred with an assault weapons ban does not mean it was not effective. We know for a fact it was in large measure a solidly good law. Columbine happened because gun laws were tight enough and had nothing to do with the assault weapons ban.
An October 2012 study from Johns Hopkins, (click here) which looked at newer data than Koper’s, concluded that that “easy access to firearms with large-capacity magazines facilitates higher casualties in mass shootings.”
So, according to the official study, was the ban effective in stopping killings? The short answer is yes, though it’s a bit unclear because of the massive loopholes in the law. “Following implementation of the ban, the share of gun crimes involving AWs [assault weapons] declined by 17 percent to 72 percent across the localities examined for this study (Baltimore, Miami, Milwaukee, Boston, St. Louis, and Anchorage),” the Koper study concluded....
We know the political Right Wing is well funded enough to buy manipulation of experts to deliver skewed views of the world. That is called corruption and the only way it will end is for the legislature to pass laws to end the Culture of Violence in the USA including the sale of military style weapons and their ammunition.
Gun owners and gun merchants only show their willingness to be corrupted and corrupt by walking away from the debate and siding with their money interests over that of the well being of our nation. I am not impressed by the representation of the NRA as a spokesperson for gun owners. That representation illustrates nothing but a corrupt culture and poor character of its members.
Pulse of constituents is not what this is about. What needs to be done is what these hearings are about. Senator Grassley's opening statement is very misleading to his allegiance to the best outcomes of the people of this nation. We know for a fact, the diverse and loose gun laws across the country is a danger to the people of the USA as well as the countries at our borders. Where there is gun access in one state and not in the other it provides danger to those people.
Video games are an issue, but, it is not the only issue.
Just because Columbine occurred with an assault weapons ban does not mean it was not effective. We know for a fact it was in large measure a solidly good law. Columbine happened because gun laws were tight enough and had nothing to do with the assault weapons ban.
An October 2012 study from Johns Hopkins, (click here) which looked at newer data than Koper’s, concluded that that “easy access to firearms with large-capacity magazines facilitates higher casualties in mass shootings.”
So, according to the official study, was the ban effective in stopping killings? The short answer is yes, though it’s a bit unclear because of the massive loopholes in the law. “Following implementation of the ban, the share of gun crimes involving AWs [assault weapons] declined by 17 percent to 72 percent across the localities examined for this study (Baltimore, Miami, Milwaukee, Boston, St. Louis, and Anchorage),” the Koper study concluded....
We know the political Right Wing is well funded enough to buy manipulation of experts to deliver skewed views of the world. That is called corruption and the only way it will end is for the legislature to pass laws to end the Culture of Violence in the USA including the sale of military style weapons and their ammunition.
Gun owners and gun merchants only show their willingness to be corrupted and corrupt by walking away from the debate and siding with their money interests over that of the well being of our nation. I am not impressed by the representation of the NRA as a spokesperson for gun owners. That representation illustrates nothing but a corrupt culture and poor character of its members.
