Measuring change based on responses to the latest mass shooting is missing the point.

[Robb]

Great quote:

[font size=5]"Our whole goal is to break the cycle where our collective desire for policy change is driven by high-profile national tragedies."
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-- Dan Gross, president of the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence

[BainsBane]

1. Well said

Besides the constant refrain of "that proposal wouldn't have stopped the last mast shooter from accessing a weapon" misses the point. The goal isn't to keep an already dead murderer from buying more guns but to protect public safety more generally. As you rightly have pointed out, far more people die from daily gun violence.

[flamin lib]

2. As callous as it may sound, the number of victims of mass murders is tiny compared to

the day to day violence that we seem not to notice anymore.

Since 1970 there have been about 4000 deaths from terrorists on US soil, so we have to take our shoes off and be X-rayed before getting on a plane. Over the same period 900,000 people have died from gun violence and we can't get universal background checks.

In the last decade there have been more toddlers shot than police on active duty and that is just fucked up.

[Sanddog42]

3. ++1 n/t