Indiana Mayors Ask for Gun Reform
By: Audra Streetman
Updated: January 20, 2013
Fort Wayne, Indiana (WFFT) - Fort Wayne Mayor Tom Henry and Angola Mayor Richard Hickman gathered today with other public safety officials to call on President Obama and members of Congress to take immediate steps to end what they call a gun violence epidemic that kills 33 Americans every day.
Henry and Hickman are both members of a group called Mayors Against Illegal Guns. The Organization iis a bipartisan organization with over 800 mayors across the country.
The Mayors proposed three main reforms: recquiring criminal background checks for all gun sales, banning military-style assault weapons and high-capacity magazines, and making gun trafficking a federal crime.
The meeting today marks the one-month anniversary of the Sandy Hook Elementary School Shooting in Newtown, Connecticut.
Henry and Hickman are both members of a group called Mayors Against Illegal Guns. The Organization iis a bipartisan organization with over 800 mayors across the country.
The Mayors proposed three main reforms: recquiring criminal background checks for all gun sales, banning military-style assault weapons and high-capacity magazines, and making gun trafficking a federal crime.
The meeting today marks the one-month anniversary of the Sandy Hook Elementary School Shooting in Newtown, Connecticut.
Comments
1. Homicides with guns have been steadily decreasing for years. They did not consider FBI statistics showing that fact, conclusively.
2. There is no gun violence "epidemic." The 33 per day number is grossly overinflated., and it is decreasing every single year.
3. Criminal background checks on all illegal sales done by thugs on the street will not happen, and legal gun sales are not done by criminals.
4. Assault rifles have been banned since the 1930s; so, calling for a ban on something already banned is ludicrous.
5. What is a "high-capacity magazine?" Also, very large capacity magazines are notoriously prone to jam, which is exactly what happend in Tucson, AZ, and Aurora, CO.
6. Is not "gun trafficking" already a federal crime, and the Obama officials who trafficked guns to Mexico should be charged, tried, and (we hope, even though there is zero chance) convicted..
It is unfortunate facts are poor counters to emotionally charged falsehoods promulgated to advance political agendas.
Bob A.
January 14, 2013 at 6:05 pm
