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Ten Years After Columbine, Calls For Stricter Gun Control
Monday marked the tenth anniversary of the so-called Columbine Massacre, when two teenagers killed 12 classmates and a teacher in a shooting rampage at a high school in Littleton, Colorado. Tom Mauser, whose son was murdered that day, marked the occasion by calling on the Obama administration and the U.S. congress to pass legislation closing a loophole that the Columbine killers exploited to arm themselves. Coming on the heels of that plea, Senator Frank Lautenberg introduced a bill yesterday that would extend the Brady background check system to sales of arms at gun shows. At present, the loophole exists in more than thirty states in the nation. The Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence also released a report yesterday in conjunction with a press conference held by Senator Lautenberg. The Brady study called “No Check, No Gun,” revealed that a sizable unregulated market exists for gun sales as forty percent of such purchases are made through unlicensed dealers in absence of a background check. In the ten years since the Columbine Massacre almost 300,000 people in the U.S. have been killed by gun violence.
GUEST: Josh Sugarmann, Executive Director of the Violence Policy Center.
“the so-called massacre” no it was without a dought a massacre. as far as gun laws go its my constitutional right to hold a fire arm. take your liberal propaganda elsewhere.
We’ll revisit Afghanistan with news of NATO airstrikes killing election campaigners in the leadup to Parliamentary elections. And, a major hunger strike in Chile has gone on for nearly 2 months - we’ll speak with reporter Jorge Garreton live from Chile. Plus, a discussion with James Loewen, author of the best-selling book Lies My Teacher Told Me: He has a new book called the Confederate and Neo-Confederate Reader.
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devin on 22 Apr 2009 at 10:57 am: 1
“the so-called massacre” no it was without a dought a massacre. as far as gun laws go its my constitutional right to hold a fire arm. take your liberal propaganda elsewhere.
George J. Dagis on 23 Apr 2009 at 6:06 am: 2
This program is one sided; it would be far more informative if both sides were fairly represented !