The Simple Truth About Gun Control

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The mass shooting at Charleston not only reminds us of the deep racial divide in our country, but also of our lack of gun control.

Five thousand seven hundred and forty children and teens died from gunfire in the United States, just in 2008 and 2009. Twenty more, including Olivia Engel, who was seven, and Jesse Lewis, who was six, were killed just last week. Some reports say their bodies weren’t shown to their grief-stricken parents to identify them; just their pictures. The overwhelming majority of those children would have been saved with effective gun control. We know that this is so, because, in societies that have effective gun control, children rarely, rarely, rarely die of gunshots.”

Countries such as Scotland, Australia and Canada that have instituted gun control laws have seen a drastic drop in the amount of speeches their great leaders have to make after a tragedy occurs. Obama, on the other hand, has made far too many.

“Gun control works on gun violence as surely as antibiotics do on bacterial infections.”

This must read article states that we have all the reasons and horrifying examples to increase gun control in our country, but we lack the power to summon the political will needed to make lasting change.

“On gun violence and how to end it, the facts are all in, the evidence is clear, the truth there for all who care to know it—indeed, a global consensus is in place, which, in disbelief and now in disgust, the planet waits for us to us to join. Those who fight against gun control, actively or passively, with a shrug of helplessness, are dooming more kids to horrible deaths and more parents to unspeakable grief just as surely as are those who fight against pediatric medicine or childhood vaccination. It’s really, and inarguably, just as simple as that.”

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