Reinstate the assault weapons ban & eliminate loophole in background checks for private sellers

[jimmy the one]

7. Swiss myth on guns

desde:Call and email your members of congress, and the president, repeatedly until they understand that we cannot continue allowing nut jobs to acquire guns or assault weapons to mass murder innocent people.

That's been done dozens of times to no avail; repubs will generally disregard your call or email, blue dog dems will wince, & only to liberal dems are you preaching to the choir, but then there's little they can do against the other two factions against them.

I actually support what you say, reinstate assault rifle ban, nix the gunshow loophole, & I'd throw in enabling 'one gun per month' laws (also known as '12 guns per year laws) - anyone who needs 12 guns per year should be investigated by the fbi or cops imo.

With near half the guns in the world being in america, irate congressmen aren't going to be able to do much to prevent mass shootings. The best we can hope for, as always & ever, is a marginal reduction in gunviolence. That's all guncontrol efforts can be reasonably expected to do. Even were we to enact every single guncontrol measure available, it would not prevent mass shootings altogether, just reduce them a bit.

Support guncontrol efforts, visit (google) the brady campaign (i'm not a solicitor btw), and remember that even gun guru gary kleck contends that guncontrol efforts can have an affect on violent crime, perhaps 30% reduction, by employing simple gun control measures.

Swiss myth: Switzerland has about 3 million guns for ~8 million people.
America has about 300 million guns for 310 million people.
In other words, america has about 300 million more guns than the swiss.