The gun industry is doing God's work. As a result . . .

[flamin lib]

"From 2014 to 2015, the United States experienced its largest annual increase in firearm deaths over the past 35 years, a 7.8 percent upturn in a single year. In 45 of the 50 states the rate of overall deaths from firearms increased and the firearm homicide rate rose in every state except West Virginia.

New public database reveals striking differences in how guns are regulated from state to state

What did Congress do to confront this problem? Only four bills addressing firearm violence made it out of committee during the 2015-2016 congressional session. Not one was enacted.

Because of inaction on the part of the federal government, it is up to each individual state to develop its own policies to reduce gun violence. To evaluate the effectiveness of these laws, researchers and policymakers need a way to track differences in state firearm legislation over an extended time period. Previously, there was no such resource."

https://www.rawstory.com/2017/05/new-public-database-reveals-striking-differences-in-how-guns-are-regulated-from-state-to-state/





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[billh58]

1. This is where ALEC

steps into the breach and offers their "help" in writing gun legislation. This is the main reason that the red states have the most lax gun laws, and the highest gun violence rates.

Even something as simple as a federally mandated universal background check for ALL gun purchases and transfers would go a long way toward reducing the gun violence epidemic in this country.

[Aristus]

2. The homicide rate went up in West Virginia, too.

They don't call it firearm homicide there, though. They call it "feudin'."