Why gun violence can't be our new normal | Dan Gross

It doesn't matter whether you love or hate guns; it's obvious that the US would be a safer place if there weren't thousands of them sold every day without background checks. Dan Gross, president of the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence, makes a passionate, personal appeal for something that more than 90 percent of Americans want: background checks for all gun sales. "For every great movement around the world, there's a moment where you can look back and say, 'That's when things really started to change,'" Gross says. "For the movement to end gun violence in America, that moment is here."

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[MrGreenstar]

100% "shall not be infringed"

[Austinsairplanes]

that is bs you can't buy a gun at a gun show without a background check

[blurglide]

It's not; it's dramatically reduced over the last 40 years

[stapia]

the only way to stop gun violence is more technical and tactical than policy and can only be stopped through immediate action

[neodark]

Those who give up freedom for security will get neither and deserve neither.

[BlaineNay]

Do you sell EVERYTHING by sole reliance on emotion, reinforced by dishonesty?

[SolitarySubstructure]

We banned guns in Chicago almost completely. Overnight we became the safest place on earth. Move here its so nice

[MrZwitterion]

Wow, just by reading the comments you can tell how fucked up is America on that particular matter...

[DeoMachina]

>hey guys maybe killing and killing accessories aren't all that necessary
>comments section explodes
America pls.

[evilperson]

Here comes a shitstorm *grabs popcorn:*

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Gun shows in most states require background checks already.

[schwererziehbar]

Oh my god guys. Why do you still want freedom? It's the current year.

[Falcrist]

He's busy trumpeting out his goal of halving gun violence... but the rate of gun violence almost halves every decade or so regardless of legislation. The issue that causes such violence isn't lack of legislation, but lack of equality and lack of opportunity.

[sladeoriginal]

Gun shows = background checks
Online sales = shipping to FFL gun store + background checks

[DanielBostock]

Gun violence is at an all time low in the US

[texxmexx]

Pretty rich for a gun-grabber like this guy to talk about someone else "telling a big enough lie often enough". The gun-grabbers live by lies: "40% of gun sales are done without a background check", still being quoted even after the author of the "study" (a random phone survey) that came up with that figure renounced his own conclusion and stated that the true figure is about 10-15%,   which had been borne out empirically  in Colorado after they instituted "universal" background checks. "You can buy a gun over the Internet easier than you can buy a pair of shoes": No, you can't, guns cannot be delivered across state lines to your home or to you unless you are a Federally-licensed dealer, who must run a background check before transferring a firearm to a purchaser (that has been the law since about 1968, BTW). "AR-15s are military high-powered rifles that spray 30 bullets in a half-second": No, they aren't, they are ordinary semi-automatic rifles that no military in the world would issue, that  shoot  a round that is not considered powerful enough to hunt deer  with  in some states (it is actually a .22-caliber round, albeit a centerfire). And real, honest-to-goodness full-auto submachine guns do not empty 30-round magazines in a half-second; no semi-auto will.  I could go on all day like this; if gun-grabbers like Mr. Gross didn't have lies and bogus statistics, they wouldn't have anything to talk about.

[larsonthewolf]

Remember when TED use to have a interesting Discussion with cited references, and potent statements.... ya those where the days

[dustyrhoads]

NIJ's earliest firearms studies uncovered who owns guns, legally and illegally, and how illegal gun trafficking is tied to juvenile gun violence and other crimes such as drug dealing and gang crime. Highlights of these studies:

Many juveniles and young adults can easily obtain guns illegally; most claim to carry them for self-defense.

A study of persons arrested for a wide range of crimes showed that a higher percentage of arrestees than regular citizens own firearms. Arrestees are also more likely to be injured or killed by gun violence. Within a community, this amounts to an identifiable group of “career” offenders.


"Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves." - William Pitt the Younger

[MarcoFantin]

Thumbs up if you think that all the Thumbs down are coming from the gun lobby.

[rangerjesse]

If gun deaths are the new normal then what does that say about vehicle deaths???