Kids' mental health becomes part of the plea for gun control

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Mass shootings have increasingly hurt America's youth. But will lawmakers change anything?

How to manage your mental health as traumatic events pile up“After Columbine, after Sandy Hook, after Charleston, after Orlando, after Las Vegas, after Parkland—nothing has been done,” the president said in his speech.. The law created a federal ban on the “manufacture, transfer, or possession of a semiautomatic assault weapon” and also prohibited the possession or transfer of large-capacity ammunition devices that carried more than 10 bullets.

A 2019 study from New York University School of Medicine found that while the 1994 ban was in effect,. Once it expired, however, the death toll tripled from 4.8 deaths to 23.8 shooting-related deaths per year. More broadly, assault rifles made up 85.8 percent of the deaths in 44 mass-shooting incidents between 1981 to 2017.

Restoring the ban on assault weapons and high-capacity magazines might lead to fewer deaths and injuries. Data on the past decade of mass shootings compiled by Everytown for Gun Safety found that in the US. Using an assault weapon also makes a person six times more likely to be hit during a mass shooting.While most gun control measures have focused on assault weapons, other solutions have also been proposed.

 

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Kids mental health is the problem, gun violence is new, since congress cut mental health in the 80's and liberals started telling kids it's not thier fault, there are no looser, everyone deserves the same things.

We're focused on guns while liberal cities are refusing to arrest and incarcerate criminals. Mind boggling.

guns, stay on the shelves until psychos, of government origin, Manchurian candidate persuasion or empire builders etc, despots, decide to use them against gun control.

They won't

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