'A nation of children threatened by gun violence does not have a future,' the editorial states.
online Thursday in the wake of a string of mass shootings—on May 14 at a grocery store in Buffalo, New York, on May 15 at a church in Laguna Woods, California, and May 24 in Uvalde, Texas—and as the NRA is set to begin its annual meeting in Houston.
Failure to impose tightened restrictions on that access, he wrote, ensures"living with more and more senseless carnage, courtesy of the National Rifle Association and their well-funded political lackeys." Assertions that gun restrictions are useless because a potential assailant could simply work around them also don't hold water, he wrote. Citing 2017 research, Thorp noted that"extending criminal sentences for gun use in violent crime, prohibiting gun ownership by individuals convicted of domestic violence, and restricting the concealed carry of firearms lead to demonstrable reductions in gun violence.
As happened with those issues, he wrote that it must now"be decided that unfettered gun ownership by American citizens is not consistent with a flourishing country where people can worship, shop, and be educated without fear."
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