Gun shop owner and 2nd Amendment advocate Toby Leary announces outside the Massachusetts Statehouse in Boston, Tuesday, Oct. 8, 2024, that firearms activists have collected enough signatures to place a question on the Massachusetts 2026 ballot that would repeal the state's new sweeping gun law....
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 ...
MASS. GUN LAWS REDUCING WEAPON AVAILABILITY, STUDY INDICATESSarah Schweitzer, Globe Staff
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...
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, ...
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, ten new pro-gun laws are set to take effect before the end of the month. the associations are strong, though reeping shies away from suggesting any causality in the data. “there’s so much going on and we can’t control for everything,” he says. but as an epidemiologist he ...
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 ...
WASHINGTON, Oct. 3 (Xinhua) -- Sunday saw the most deadly mass shooting in U.S. history, but experts have said newgun controllaws are unlikely. The killings, which occurred in Las Vegas, claimed nearly 60 lives and wounded more than 500, when a gunman opened fire on a crowd at a co...
Authorities said the shooter in Orebro had licenses for four weapons, three of which were found next to his body. Police have seized the fourth. Officials have only said at least one gun was a rifle-like weapon. Currently,Sweden's laws already involvestrict licensing for all firearm ownership...