“Our unalienable rights to life, and liberty, and the pursuit of happiness—those rights were stripped from college students in Blacksburg and Santa Barbara; and from high schoolers at Columbine; and from first graders in Newtown. First graders. And from every family who never imagined their loved one would be taken from our lives by a bullet from a gun. Every time I think about those kids it gets me mad." —President Obama on why he just announced new steps to help #StopGunViolence: go.wh.gov/StopGunViolence
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Steve Goble
I am strongly supportive of every liberty and freedom that citizenship in this greatest of all countries provides. Including the second stated freedom. AND I don't think that people should be able to buy guns without background checks. BUT, if anybody in the world thinks that more legislation or executive action is going to keep guns or any other deadly weapon out of criminals' hands, that person is a FOOL.
Terrell Shaw
Nobody, to my knowledge, thinks legislation is a cure all, but any "fool" who does the research will find that sensible legislation, regulation, background checks, can help reduce gun violence.
David Matheny
The argument sounds like, "Well, there are Too Many Cars on the Road, We ought to throw up our hands and not regulate Lanes of Traffic, Stop Lights and Speed...Gosh Darn, they're too many Cars!!"
John Countryman
There's a wealth of evidence that this sort of legislation will keep weapons out of the hands of some criminals and will save lives. Some is better than none. Every life counts.
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