"A new federal assault weapons ban and background checks of all gun buyers....might have done little to prevent the massacre in Newtown, Conn., last month. The semiautomatic rifle that Adam Lanza used to shoot 20 schoolchildren and 6 adults complied with Connecticut’s assault weapons ban, the police said, and he did not buy the gun himself."
New York Times
Since Obama chose to not let the Newtown crisis go to waste, there have been many long lists of interesting gun stats on the internet. It's obvious that all of us, including children, are safer when citizens are armed. But, of course, it's obvious that facts are not driving the discussion.
ReplyDeleteI do think we should have one new gun law: Those who support gun control should be required to affix a bumper sticker and/or post a sign on their property: I Support Gun control.