{"id":209269,"date":"2021-03-24T01:30:39","date_gmt":"2021-03-23T22:30:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/get-weapons-of-war-off-americas-streets\/"},"modified":"2021-03-24T01:30:39","modified_gmt":"2021-03-23T22:30:39","slug":"get-weapons-of-war-off-americas-streets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/get-weapons-of-war-off-americas-streets\/","title":{"rendered":"#Get weapons of war off America\u2019s streets"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Get weapons of war off America\u2019s streets<\/strong>”
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Eight slain in Atlanta, now 10 in Boulder. Your town could be next. Can the nation finally do something about weapons of war on our streets?<\/p>\n

President Joe Biden called Tuesday for Congress to move immedia<\/a>tely to \u201cban assault weapons and high-capacity magazines.\u201d It\u2019s a start, though he\u2019ll have to reach across party lines for real this time, since some Democrats are as anti-gun-control as the bulk of today\u2019s GOP.<\/p>\n

The New York Post does not see this as a conservative or liberal issue \u2014 it\u2019s an issue\u00a0of life and death. Curbing guns is what led to New York City\u2019s three-decade reduction in murders. And, sadly, it\u2019s the dismissal of that progress that has led to a rise in shootings here. Outside the city, the toll of automatic weapons is a sad litany of cities and schools: Newtown, Parkland, Aurora, Las Vegas. It\u2019s a national shame.<\/p>\n

We called on President Donald Trump to act, and we\u2019ll happ<\/a>ily support Biden in a fight for the needed changes. Polls show most Americans want this. It\u2019s the political establishment that is frozen.<\/p>\n

Wait! shouts the \u201cdo nothing\u201d crowd: The Atlanta and Boulder killers used handguns, and both seem to have major mental-illness issues. How does this justify drastic action?<\/p>\n

In fact, the Boulder gun was an AR-15-style weapon with a pistol stock and a shorter barrel \u2014 less accurate, but easier to conceal \u2014 and nothing that\u00a0any\u00a0<\/em>civilian needs to own.<\/p>\n

And, sure, the nation also needs to do better on mental health. But beefed-up background checks would help keep firearms of all kinds out of hands attached to unsound minds. Ahmad Al Aliwi Alissa bought his Ruger AR-556 just six days before the Boulder slaughter; Robert Aaron Long bought his pistol just minutes before the Atlanta spree. Even a waiting period might have made a difference.<\/p>\n

And while not all mass shooters use long guns, let alone semi-automatic ones, that\u2019s been the favorite weapon of these killers for years now.<\/p>\n

Details vary in the slaughters at\u00a0Santa Fe HS,\u00a0Tree of Life\u00a0synagogue, the\u00a0Garlic Festival, the Pulse nightclub and\u00a0El Paso\u00a0and\u00a0Dayton\u00a0and\u00a0Virginia Beach\u00a0and\u00a0Thousand Oaks. But the bodies keep piling up \u2014 and all the hate-crime laws in the world won\u2019t do a thing to stop them.<\/p>\n

When they enshrined the Second Amendment, the Founding Fathers could not have conceived of high-capacity magazines. Hunting and home protection are one thing \u2014\u00a0but what civilian needs an AR-15?<\/p>\n

The Supreme Court has ruled the Constitution protects guns \u201cin common use,\u201d not weapons of war. Our forefathers did not want every American to be capable of mass slaughter.<\/p>\n

As\u00a0we\u2019ve said before, getting it done will require centrists to stand up in both parties to stare down their \u201cban everything\u201d and \u201cban nothing\u201d extremes. Start by writing an assault-weapon ban that focuses on firepower \u2014 rate of fire, muzzle velocity, and so on. Then move on to tighter, universal background checks, etc., reasonable waiting periods and all the rest.<\/p>\n

And, yes oh yes, make it easier for families to get help for their troubled loved ones, first by taking away their guns, then by getting them the mental-health services they need.<\/p>\n

Get started today, before the next horror hits.\n <\/p><\/div>\n

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