In 41 states, you can buy semi-automatic rifles and ammo at gun shows with no background checks, and since no records are kept, anyone can buy and anyone can sell.
States with loose gun laws and the most guns have a 40% higher gun murder rate than the states with the strictest laws and fewest guns.
Border cities are much safer than inland cities; Laredo, where Trump went to tell how dangerous these cities are, has 2/3 fewer murders than Houston or Dallas. The safest large city in the nation is the one with the most undocumented immigrants, with a rate 50% lower than the US average: San Diego.
The NRA claims Hitler confiscated the guns of Germans. In fact, the 1938 German weapons act liberalized, expanded, and deregulated guns and ammo for over 99% of the population (excluding Jews, who were less than 1% of the population and with few guns.). Like the NRA, the Nazis wanted an "armed Aryan nation."
The German Weapons Act under Hitler expanded gun rights.
When the Black Panthers in California legally open carried before the state capitol in the 70's, Governor Reagan quickly got the Legislature to change the law.
Chicago, the poster child for gun murder, is not ranked in the top 30 of the most violent cities.
Detroit has 300 gun murders a year, while Windsor, Canada, just across the bridge has 1 or 2.
From its founding in 1871 until 1977, the NRA was in forefront of advocating gun regulation. Today, it opposes all gun laws such as the universal background check because "we have too many laws already."
Adam Lanza, the SandyHook mass murder had earned a safety award from the NRA.
The Universal Background Check, supported by 9 of 10 Americans, would replace hundreds of state and local laws with
7 simple words: All gun transfers require a background check.
The most gun murders in US history happened in 1993 with 17,000. The next year, the Brady Act (with its "private" loophole) took effect and within 5 yrs, the gun murder rate had fallen to 10,000.
Germany with 1 gun for every 3 citizens has strict gun laws and 95% lower gun murder rates than the US; likewise with Switzerland.
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