On Thursday February 7 House Democratic leaders proposed multiple new ideas on how to handle the current situation of banning assault rifles and extended magazines. After meeting with groups of gun violence victims, gun rights groups, enforcement officials and others the leader of the house Nancy Pelosi proposed a plan of 15 new principles that could affect the current situation with owning weapons. One of their plans is to make it legal to only hold 10 bullets of ammunition in each magazine. A magazine is the part of a gun that holds the ammunition. They also want to increase the amount of security background checks that limit being able to buy a weapon. After the Newtown shooting President Obama started to show concerns about gun control, even though during his first term we never heard anything about guns. As of this point in time no changes have been made to gun control.
My thoughts are that limiting the amount of ammunition a gun magazine can hold could be very helpful in minimizing the amount of shootings like the Newtown shooting, but I also think that if a criminal wants to get something, they can always find a way. I think that its also a great thing that people and government are starting to notice some of the flaws are nations security has.
Original article link- http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2013/02/07/house-democrats-unveil-gun-control-agenda-that-faces-uphill-battle-in-congress/?hpt=po_c2
February 13th, 2013 at 9:07 pm
I agree with all of your comments. It is encouraging to know that people and government are now willing to act boldly to begin to reduce gun violence. I hope that the changes made will result in progress and a safer environment around us.
Well done.