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Weekend Gun Report: May 9-11, 2014
http://nocera.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/05/12/weekend-gun-report-may-9-11-2014/?_php=true&_type=blogs&_r=0[center]
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Last March, when Facebook promised to crack down on gun advertising by deleting posts from people looking to buy or sell guns without background checks, it was heralded as a victory by some gun-control groups. Others, however, hoped for the outright ban of gun ads, à la Craigslist and eBay. Instead, the social network said it would hide posts peddling guns from minors and remind users to follow local gun laws.
This emphasis on self-policing worried organizations like the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence, which said the online market is more worrisome than gun shows because, unlike a gun show, the Internet never closes.
It turns out some of those fears may have been justified. NPR reports that people are privately trading guns without background checks through groups like Firearms Las Vegas, and auctioning firearms at sites like Idaho Firearms and Accessories.
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“The gun industry is the only industry that makes products without safety features,” said Bryan Miller, whose group, Ceasefire NJ, was instrumental in writing the 12-year-old law. ”And that is unconscionable.”
This emphasis on self-policing worried organizations like the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence, which said the online market is more worrisome than gun shows because, unlike a gun show, the Internet never closes.
It turns out some of those fears may have been justified. NPR reports that people are privately trading guns without background checks through groups like Firearms Las Vegas, and auctioning firearms at sites like Idaho Firearms and Accessories.
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“The gun industry is the only industry that makes products without safety features,” said Bryan Miller, whose group, Ceasefire NJ, was instrumental in writing the 12-year-old law. ”And that is unconscionable.”
The last line says it all, and the result is:
According to the Gun Violence Archive, 6,360 people have been injured by gun violence in America and 3,742 have been killed since Jan. 1, 2014.