Fuck your "pro-life" anti-abortion, pro-gun, anti-white privilege arguments.

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112. Each of these tragic incidents has its own unique cause. Sandy Hook -

just a horrible gruesome event. May have been prevented if the mother kept the guns safely stored. Meaning that as the legal owner she (the mother) should have been the only one with access. She got careless and paid with her life.

Proper mental health care for the boy may have helped.

Aurora theater. BG check at point of sale did not help. Registration would not have helped.

But the simple fact is that as horiffic as these events are they are relatively rare ompared to daily gun crime and violence. Keeping guns away from criminals is crucial. So is safety training.

There is no single measure that will reduce gun violence. But i am convinced BG checks need to done at every sale. Even private sales. It would add a significant burden but i think BG checks have been demonstrated to help.

MA has a "registration" law. If you sell a gun you must file the transaction with the state. Some other states have similar laws. But criminals will not follow the laws. And some states have few laws governing private sales.

So it is a very complex problem and no one legal requirement will fix things on its own. Better mental
health care. More uniform and strongly enforced state laws would help. More and better trained police
would help as well.