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Thu Jun 2, 2022, 02:32 PM Jun 2022

A Few Common-Sense Gun Reforms Might Work (this is where the 'reasonable' people on the right are)

A Few Common-Sense Gun Reforms Might Work

June 2, 2022 at 2:00 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard 14 Comments

https://politicalwire.com/2022/06/02/a-few-common-sense-gun-reforms-might-work/

"SNIP......

Mona Charen: “Perhaps all of these killers would have been able to lay hands on guns already owned by individuals. Maybe. But it would have been much harder than walking into a gun store. In most cases, these killers are mentally unstable, impulsive, and socially maladroit. Purchasing a weapon via private sale would be more challenging.”

“So making it more difficult to purchase guns—say, by adding more complete background checks, increasing the minimum age to 21, requiring waiting periods, or adopting ‘red flag laws’ that make it possible for family members or police to ask courts to have a person’s guns temporarily removed—would have inhibited the vast majority of the killers listed above.”

Elliot Ackerman: Our narrative of mass shootings is killing us.

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