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Roy Moore Calms Wounded People Before They Seek Revenge. Portland City Hall Is Betting His Work Can Curb a Wave of Shootings. His job is central to City Council s hope of slowing a vicious shooting war without turning to Portland’s most politically toxic solution: more cops. OPEN ALL NIGHT: Roy Moore keeps a phone by his bed so Legacy Emanuel Medical Center can contact him if shooting victims arrive overnight. “It’s hard to unplug,” he says. (Sam Gehrke)
4 Reasons Gun Control Can’t Solve America’s Violence Problem
These 4 underlying sociological problems, not guns, are the key drivers of American violence.
Saturday, April 3, 2021
The gun-control paradigm the idea that the solution to American violence is more laws restricting guns is unhelpful.
Gun control burdens the free exercise of the constitutionally-protected Second Amendment right to bear arms, so it’s subject to compelling legal challenges and is flatly rejected by many Americans. In addition, the enforcement of stringent gun control invariably inflicts heavy burdens upon other civil liberties especially in poorer communities and among marginalized populations.
Gun control’s coexistence with the values of a free society is, at best, an uneasy one. But it’s even less viable in the particular context of the United States. Consider the 400 million guns already in private circulation, plus the totally irreversible and ever-increasing ease of the self-manufacturin
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The Biden administration plans to invest $5bn toward gun violence prevention in the nation’s most hard-hit areas as part of a key infrastructure package announced this week.
This investment marks an important step in acknowledging the disparate impact of gun violence and is the first time the government has set aside this much money at one time to address community violence holistically
over a multi-year period.
“Historically, the federal government’s approach, particularly when faced with surges in gun homicides, is to fund strategies that over-police,” said Paul Carillo, community violence initiative director for the Giffords Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence, in a statement. “The Biden administration demonstrated a commitment to addressing the root causes.”
Delaware Senate ready to vote on additional gun restrictions Follow Us
Question of the Day By RANDALL CHASE - Associated Press - Wednesday, March 31, 2021
DOVER, Del. (AP) - A Democrat-led Senate committee on Wednesday released two bills outlawing high-capacity magazines and requiring anyone wanting to buy a handgun to first obtain a permit from the state.
The move came despite concerns by critics that the bills are unconstitutional, racially discriminatory and will not reduce gun violence by criminals.
After two hours of public comment in a virtual meeting attended by nearly 700 people, Judiciary Committee Darius Brown, D-Wilmington, declined to call for a public vote by committee members. The bills instead were released after being circulated privately among committee members for their signatures.