The 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School shootings caused several states and cities to pass strict gun control measures. In response, state lawmakers in gun friendly states in the South and West passed bills that would strengthen Stand Your Ground laws and allow weapons in most public places. In 2014, 21 states passed laws that expanded the rights of gun owners allowing them to possess firearms in churches, bars, schools and college campuses. The federal government has not passed any gun control measures since the 1994 Brady Bill and 42 states now allow the possession of assault rifles. In the U.S. two-thirds of all gun deaths are suicides and in 2010 there were 19,000 firearm suicides and 11,000 firearm homicides.
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@8NWB7PX4yrs4Y
No remove all gun laws and make it a right under constitution.
@8NQXJWF4yrs4Y
Once mandated safety training and background checks are complete, there should be no restrictions on firearms ownership or carriage.
@88LK76J4yrs4Y
No guns should only be restricted to adults only
@88LK76J4yrs4Y
No all gun control laws must be abolished except for adult age restrictions.
@88LK76J4yrs4Y
No all gun control laws must be abolished except for age restrictions
@74SQGHQ3yrs3Y
No, and repeal the gun control acts of 1986, 1964 and 1934
@74SQGHQ4yrs4Y
No, and repeal the gun control acts of 1986 and 1934
@7GJCNV84yrs4Y
@8M64XKW4yrs4Y
No, gun laws are unconstitutional, and most that we have need to be repealed.
@88LK76J4yrs4Y
No all gun control laws must be abolished except for age restrictions.
@8TKFNNS4yrs4Y
Yes only those that have a mental Illness or those that have a really a history of being a criminal that commits have repeated crimes and No for the Lawful American Cizitens.
@3H7HTG65yrs5Y
No, gun control laws should be left to the State and not the Federal Government.
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