Another day, another mass shooting. Television pundits say, "We must try harder to stop it!" The same old tropes are used to describe the shooter. Officials tell the same old story of a person who decides his only option is to use his weapon to take innocent lives. Right now, they don't know how this shooter was able to obtain his weapon. The spokesperson said it was too hard to trace. Why is that? You can trace a vehicle by its vehicle identification number. Why is it so difficult to find out where and when and how this shooter obtained his weapon?
Now is the time to do something about gun violence. Don't you agree? The President has a plan. You can read it here: https://www.whitehouse.gov/issues/preventing-gun-violence
Can we stop all gun violence? No. But we must not let that deter our efforts. We must strengthen our background check system to cover ALL gun sales and make it instantly available to all law enforcement agencies.
As the president says, "No single law – or even set of laws – can prevent every act of violence in our country. But the fact that this problem is complex can not be an excuse for inaction."
Every one of us can do something. We can contact our representatives in Congress to ask what they are doing. We can write letters to the editors of our local newspapers. We can support http://momsdemandaction.org/ Whatever we do, we must not give up!
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