The state legislature in Connecticut has
approved gun control measures which campaigners say are the most comprehensive
in America.
The sweeping new restrictions include a ban on new high-capacity
magazines and background checks on all gun buyers.
President Barack Obama and gun
control advocates say the measures are needed to curb an epidemic of gun
violence.
In Washington, the US Congress is
set to debate new gun control legislation this month.
As we live in a world where he who
shouts loudest gets heard, it’s nice to hear something other than gun nuts
spouting nonsense about how
Hitler and Stalin took away the guns in their societies and look what happened
there. People with that point of view clearly didn’t pay much attention in
history class at school.
The sensible measures put
in place by the Connecticut state legislature will show that if you regulate guns
properly then it will make an area much safer and, despite the bleating of organisations
like the NRA, gun controls won’t suddenly turn America into 1930s Germany.
Hopefully when this issue
is discussed in Washington the Democrats and Republicans will arrive at a
similar conclusion, and show once and for all that they are prepared to tackle
gun violence.
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