Yes, America has a mass shooting problem, but it’s a symptom of a deeper malady of mass gun violence.
of a provision that will raise the minimum age to buy semi-automatic rifles from 18 to 21 is not going to move the dial in a significant way.
Cassandra Crifasi, director of research and policy at the Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Violence Solutions, told me that while no one reform is going to reduce all types of gun deaths, there are some that can address multiple types — and those are key to focus on. One example she gave was red flag laws, or extreme risk protection orders, which allow people to petition to separate an individual temporarily from their firearms during a time of elevated risk or during a crisis. This not only helps protect against mass shooters, who often hint at or openly broadcast imminent violence to peers in advance, but it also reduces gun violence in everyday contexts.
the likelihood of death by suicide, and a woman is five times more likely to be killed by an abusive partner if they have access to a gun., which standardize more robust background checks, close loopholes that allow individuals to obtain guns without completed background checks, and can take weeks longer than the typical background check process.
These policies hint at a simple reality: more guns makes our country more dangerous; making it harder to get them makes the country safer. The U.S.
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