Since Parkland school shooting, gun control debate spreads to state capitols
[2023-07-25 16:06:03]
Advocates of gun control are promising after a massive shooting incident in Parkland and this tragedy will boost actions not done in past massacres.
So far, most attention is concentrated in Congress and Florida State Parliament. But last week's national parliament has been heavily debated about measures to make it more difficult to obtain aggressive weapons and authorities' easier access to these weapons.
William Bos, a gun-representative in the Senate committee in Washington, Olympia said, "The measures we are debating today are likely to be successful," he said. "But please do not ignore the fact that the final site safety is the best opportunity to minimize such incidents."
Washington's measure is similar to many measures across the country. This will raise the age limit and establish a 10 day waiting period for those who purchase semi-automatic weapons.
"Improving age limits for purchasing semi-automatic rifles is consistent with our current understanding of brain development," pediatric psychologist Thomas Duhamel supported in support of the bill. "The brains of teenagers are different from the brains of adults." If students are armed, this may be the result of isolated impulsive reactions.
In the statement, the National Rifle Association. He said Washington Senate bill 6620 is another one of "gun control measures used only to punish law-abiding citizens".
Washington State is one of the sites where the shooting incident of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida has activated activists. A former student fired on the AR - 15 attack weapon on February 14 and 17 people died
Like other states, frustration and emotional testimony accounted for the majority of Olympia's hearing time. Speakers include relatives of students who were killed and victims of violence by other guns
Paul Kramer, whose son was seriously injured in the shooting in 2016, killed three former students at a party near Seattle. It is easy to obtain troublesome young people, AR - 15, "It was legally bought." Two years ago, because the proposed bill was implemented as a law, no shooting incident occurred, Mr. Kramer Said.
Jim Parsons' daughter Carrie was one out of 58 who was murdered by a sniper by using a modified AR - 15 last year in Las Vegas. Weapons have no social status. "The weapons of Las Vegas Gunner actually changed to machine guns with machine guns, and some states including Washington were banned.
In addition to this action in Washington, at least 12 countries have weighed the so-called Red Flag Act, allowing the authorities to seize the guns identified by the courts and pose a danger to families and others. Five of the states in California, Oregon, Washington, Connecticut, and Indiana - Last week, some form of law enforcement agency was with the Governor of Gina Lymond in Faroe Island.
According to state lawmakers, there were at least five provinces (Kansas, South Dakota, Georgia, Texas, Tennessee) after a shooting incident occurred in elementary school in Sandy Hook, Connecticut in 2012. The law permits teachers to carry with them. In order to protect armed school officials, you can use the law of more than 20 countries.
The Black Survivor of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, taken at Parkland, Florid, has been raging since the tragedy gun regulation controversy has ignored them almost - and recently to school safety improvement by improving safety Movement actually makes them happy. It is more dangerous. The students also said that the discussion on gun control after Parkland did not fully recognize the impact of gun violence on black young people. According to the analysis of fatal and nonfatal children's firearm damage damage created by researchers at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in 2017, black children are at the highest risk of firearms.
Today, thousands of students in the country went out of the classroom to protest the violence of guns. About a month after the