MASS. GUN LAWS REDUCING WEAPON AVAILABILITY, STUDY INDICATESSarah Schweitzer, Globe Staff
According to a survey about the expected impact of gun laws on the number of mass shootings, a slim majority of Americans believe that gun control measures will have little-to-no effect. Most likely, this opinion is influenced by an underlying commitment among many in the U.S. to the ...
Exposure An annual rating between 0 (completely restrictive) and 100 (completely permissive) for the gun laws of all 50 states taken from a reference guide for gun owners traveling between states from 1998 to 2015. Gun ownership was estimated annually as the percentage of suicides committed with...
Tasmania had some of the loosest gun laws in Australia at the time, and the state had long resisted stricter firearm-control measures at the federal level. Prime Minister John Howard responded to the worst mass murder in Australia’s history by crafting the National Firearms Agreement. It ...
Gun control laws in the U.S. are dependent on the state, and the right to own a firearm is enshrined in the United States Constitution. Mass shootings The worst mass shooting in the U.S. was the Las Vegas Strip massacre in 2017, which resulted in 58 deaths and 546 injuries. 13 of...
Over the last year, those seeds of change have sprouted into measurable transformations at the state level. CBS 2 Investigator Megan Hickey reports.Jul 1, 2023 Twitter Facebook Email Live Now CBS News 24/7 CBS News Baltimore CBS News Bay Area ...
Will tighter gun laws curb mass shooters? My view is that the commonly offered culprits in multiple shootings, guns and mental illness, are red herrings. I believe that the root of the issue lies in a shift in our core values. We have become a culture that values fame, even infamy, ...
Don’t expect new gun controls in Republican-led states, such as Tennessee or Texas. But when similar tragedies occur in Democratic-led states, more gun limits are likely — even if they already have restrictive laws. Mass shootings generally don’t seem to change a state’s basic political...
gun laws in the aftermath of past mass shootings, individual state legislatures have. and as the disparity between states with weak gun laws and those with tough ones has widened, so too has the gap in mass shootings. which means that terrorist acts like those committed in el paso and ...
I’m going to say it again. It’s the guns. The guns and high capacity magazines and lax gun laws. Patrick Crusius and the Dayton shooter (who hasn’t been publicly identified yet) were both law-abiding citizens until they opened fire. It’s legal in both Ohio and Texas to openly ...