Great info at Sandy Hook Vigil today

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Last February, Daniel Webster, Professor and Director of the Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Policy and Research, appeared at a Senate hearing on "Proposals to Reduce Gun Violence: Protecting Our Communities While Respecting the Second Amendment."

He referred to the substantial burden of gun violence on American society. It is fairly common knowledge that more than 31,000 people a year in the U.S. die from gunshot wounds. But in 2010, there were an estimated 337,960 non-fatal violence crimes committed with guns, and 73,505 persons treated in hospital ER's for non-fatal gunshot wounds.

Here's a link with recommendations:

http://www.jhsph.edu/news/news-releases/2013/gun-policy-summit-recommendations.html

We must never give up, we must never give up.

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1. Bogus arguments of opponents for reform

1. Our nation's high rate of homicide has nothing to do with firearm availability.

2. Gun control laws don't work because criminals won't obey them and will always find a way to get a gun through theft or the illegal market.

3. We don't need to pass new gun laws, we just need to enforce current ones.

4. Requiring background checks for all firearms sales is too great of a burden to gun purchasers to justify.

5. Proposed universal background checks would allow the federal government to create a registry of gun owners.

6. Limits on assault weapons and large capacity magazines would not enhance public safety.

7. The only thing that can stop a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun.