Apr 22 2009
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.
For more information, visit www.vpc.org.
7 Responses to “Ten Years After Columbine, Calls For Stricter Gun Control”
“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.
This program is one sided; it would be far more informative if both sides were fairly represented !
Till next time.Good Luck
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