A critical first step is to conduct thorough and vigorous research on how to
make gun ownership safer.
Not exact matches
This sentiment has been fueled by a decades - long public campaign by the NRA to convince the US public and politicians that, in fact, the Second Amendment guarantees an individual right to bear arms, and that more
guns will actually
make people safer (by letting them protect themselves), despite research that shows higher levels of
gun ownership actually lead to more
gun violence.
Socially, we appear to have
made a collective decision that
gun ownership is more important than our lives or safety.
«We recognise the traditions of
gun ownership that passed on from generation to generation, that hunting and shooting are part of a cherished national heritage,» said Obama during remarks
made at a National Urban League Conference in New Orleans.
You haven't
made a case for restricting
gun ownership.
The same pattern appears when comparisons of violence to
gun ownership are
made within nations.
But even though the 5 - 4 majority ruling
makes an intellectual end run around the language of the Second Amendment to get to their ruling, they very clearly state that society (government, convened to collectively protect us from what we can't protect ourselves from as individuals) has the right to, and legitimate interest in controlling
gun ownership, in several specific ways.
The questioner
made clear each time that he believes that there shouldn't be any restrictions on
gun ownership and that he's adamantly against New York City's heightened restrictions on carrying handguns.
«A witness in this case who was also in the church spotted the accused, and when a search was conducted on him, a locally
made pistol and two rounds of ammunition were found on him,» the charge sheet stated adding that Charles Antwi «admitted
ownership of the
gun and said that he bought it from a national of Burkina Faso in Nkoranza in the Brong Ahafo Region.»
He is a natural for the role: he has published dozens of papers on the effects of
guns in the U.S., where widespread
gun ownership and loose laws
make it easy for criminals and potentially violent people to obtain firearms.
«Let your local elected leaders
make sure that in their communities we have responsible
gun ownerships, so catastrophes like what happened today do not occur again.»