10/05/2015
Read all of this. Follow this link - shootingtracker.com/wiki/Mass_Shootings_in_2015. The fact that a mass shooting tracker needs to exist is disgusting and the information it presents is numbing. A mass shooting is described as an event in which 4 or more people are shot. There have been 296 of those events in the US this year, just 41 less than 2014, and it's barely October. Ask yourself, ? It could be your school, your workplace, your neighborhood supermarket, anywhere. Unless a civil response to gun violence is achieved. The answer is not to "Take everyone's gun away" or "Give everyone a gun," but there needs to be a reasonable middle ground, a thorough process that prevents people who should not have a gun, from obtaining one. Read this article to learn about how the most notorious mass shooters obtained their weapons, legally. http://www.nytimes.com/…/how-mass-shooters-got-their-guns.h…
I know, I know, it isn't about the guns, it’s about the mentally ill people that use the guns. Yeah, that's exactly right. Running a person’s social security number through a computer isn't going to always provide the information necessary to prevent someone with a mass murder scheme from obtaining a gun, as we've seen time and time again. So what will? That's a damn good question, but it's about time we figure it out, don't you think? You know, before we find out .
A good place to start? Pull the plug on the 1996 bill that makes it illegal for some of the most qualified scientists and other researchers in America to study gun violence, you know the folks at the CDC. But guns aren't a disease! But the people who use them to commit these heinous crimes are, and it's apparently really contagious.
I encourage you to sign this petition. No matter what your stance on gun ownership I think we can all agree that we need to find a real solution to ending mass gun violence and this is a step in the right direction. The CDC and other scientific research can help. Even the former representative and lifelong NRA member who entered the bill to begin with thinks so. He, along with a former director at the CDC, released a joint statement following the Aurora movie theater shooting that said, “...scientific research should be conducted into preventing firearm injuries and that ways to prevent firearm deaths can be found without encroaching on the rights of legitimate gun owners." This is more than true. Sign it and share it before we find out .
In 1996 congress passed a bill that caused the CDC to be cut from obtaining federal funding that went to gun research, with the stipulation: "None of the funds made available for injury prevention and control at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention may be used to advocate or promote gun co…
