53 deaths that won’t change America
A total of 53 people were killed by mass shootings in the US last month alone, marking the 38th tragedy of its kind in 2019, according to recentWhen it comes to gun reform, Australia is often cited as a shining act to follow: We passed gun reform legislation shortly after the Port Arthur massacre of 1996, and — up until June this year — we hadn’t seen a mass shooting since.
Gun control advocates have called for universal background checks, the disarming of domestic abusers, “red flag” laws permitting family or friends to temporarily remove guns from dangerous individuals, and the banning of semiautomatic rifles.The National Rifle Association is one of the most powerful and influential lobby groups in the US — so much so that it’s been described as America’s “third political party”.
During the 2016 election, the organisation spent a record $US54 million on 86 Republican candidates, producing ads in support of the Republican who criticised their Democratic opponent. Some politicians, in turn, fear what losing the support of the NRA could mean for their careers. In 2013, a retired Republican congresswoman toldOr take former Texas senator Ted Cruz, who in the lead-up to the 2016 election posted aliterally cooking bacon with an AR-15 rifle — and then eating the bacon. Of every politician in America, he was the top recipient of gun-rights money that year.
The Second Amendment says “a well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed”.
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