'Instead of training children, teachers, houses of faith & concertgoers to prep for being shot,' the United States needs to introduce tighter gun control laws, New York Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has asserted.
After lauding New Zealand's government for taking gun control action in the days following last Friday's deadly mosque shootings in Christchurch, New York Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has shared a four-point plan of her own to address gun violence in the United States.
— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez March 22, 2019 Universal background checksOcasio-Cortez's first suggestion is one that has already gained the approval of her peers in the House of Representatives, with H.R.8, the Bipartisan Background Checks Act of 2019, which sets out to enforce universal background checks, passing through the House last month in a 240-190 vote.
"Even when a weapon is not discharged, abusers often use the mere presence of a gun to coerce, threaten and terrorize their victims, inflicting enormous psychological damage," CSGV warns on its website. Also able to obtain and possess firearms under federal law are individuals who have been convicted of misdemeanor stalking against an intimate partner and individuals subject to a temporary restraining order, the latter being a loophole that many states have sought to close by instituting their own laws to prevent those with temporary domestic violence restraining orders from being able to purchase or possess firearms.
Researchers behind the study, which was published in The American Journal of Public Health, defined"safe storage" as keeping all firearms locked in a gun-safe cabinet or case, locked into a gun rack or stored with a trigger lock or another suitable lock. Over the past year, the U.S. government has faced growing calls for stronger gun control measures, including bans on semi-automatic weapons and high-capacity magazines, in the wake of the February 14 mass school shooting in Parkland, Florida last year, which saw 17 students and staff killed by a teen armed with an AR-15 rifle.
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