House Committee Considers Legislation To Raise Age Limit For Buying Certain Firearms/ What America Can Learn From Other Countries With Regard To Gun Control/Introduce Democracy Dollars So To Stop Killings Of American People
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In light of recent series of gun violence, I believe you all would be interested in this video streamed on June 2, 2022, “WATCH LIVE: House committee considers legislation to raise age limit for buying certain firearms“, below:
Canada unveiled legislation this week that would freeze new handgun purchases and create a mandatory buyback program for semi-automatic rifles. The announcement coincided with the funerals for 19 victims of the massacre in Uvalde, Texas, but it was years in the making. Nick Schifrin reports on how other nations responded to their own mass shootings, in the video published on June 1, 2022, “How other nations have dealt with gun safety following mass shootings“, below:
Michael Kosta heads to the world’s largest annual shooting festival to find out how Switzerland can love guns so much yet have such a low rate of gun-related crimes, in the video published on May 29, 2022, “Switzerland: So Many Guns, No Mass Shootings |The Daily Show Throwback“, below:
The last mass shooting in Switzerland took place in 2001 at Switzerland’s Parliament and none since then, while America had over 1900 mass shootings since 2012, averaging to be about 1 per day. The important difference between two nations with regard to gun laws of Switzerland:
- keep ammo separate
- universal criminal and mental background checks
- strict open carry law
- justification for ownership
- written requests to authorities
- different gun culture
In 1996, just 12 days after 35 people were killed in a mass shooting in Port Arthur, Tasmania, the government of Australia enacted strict gun control legislation, including a ban on the sale and import of all automatic and semi-automatic rifles and shotguns, and a gun buyback program. Since then, there have been only one mass shooting in Australia, and gun homicides decreased nearly 60 percent. Correspondent Seth Doane talks with Australian politicians, and with a victim and gunowner, about the sweeping changes, in the video published on May 29, 2022, “What can Australia teach us about mass shootings?” below:
As commented by an Australian gun owner, “I’d be very uncomfortable going back to the way it was before when anybody could go and buy a firearm..quite frankly I find it surprising you, as American, asked me a question like that. It’s just bizarre the number of people get killed in the United States and you have these ridiculous arguments, “well, people carry guns they can defend themselves”…”
Gun related injuries have now become the leading cause of death among American children and adolescents – ahead of motor vehicle crashes. (According to CDC (2020)/New England Journal of Medicine)
I would like to reiterate: if all 50 states of USA have also instituted similar gun laws as that of Switzerland, including:
- keep ammo separate
- universal criminal and mental background checks
- strict open carry law
- justification for ownership
- written requests to authorities
- different gun culture
these people in Tulsa, OK may still be alive today. Our law makers really should take to heart the notoriety of the American gun laws and American gun culture. There needs to be universal criminal, mental, and health background checks before any gun purchase via any avenue (via gun stores, pawn shops, as well as gun shows, etc.). The fact that there were 20 mass shootings since Uvalde, TX massacre last week and more than 1900 mass shootings since 2012 when no other country on planet earth has such atrocious record, means that our lawmakers are not doing their jobs and that there needs to be reform of election campaign laws. It is time to seriously consider and talk about introducing Democracy Dollars promoted by Andrew Yang. The essence of Democracy Dollars is based on, in italics, below:
We need to diminish the influence that mega-wealthy individuals and companies have in our elections. While we must push for a Constitutional amendment to allow our campaign finance laws to properly limit the power that the top 1% have, we must act much faster to save our democratic processes. To do so, we must make it possible for all Americans to contribute to candidates they feel strongly about, in order to drown out the voices of the few who can spend millions of dollars to influence our politicians.
The easiest way to do this is to provide Americans with publicly funded vouchers they can use to donate to politicians that they support. Every American gets $100 a year to give to candidates, use it or lose it. These Democracy Dollars would, by the sheer volume of the US population, drown out the influence of mega-donors.
Imagine running for office when every American has $100 Democracy Dollars to give to their favorite candidate. Just 10,000 supporters could mean $1 million for your campaign. Once elected, you could act primarily in the interest of the people you represent instead of appeasing wealthy donors and corporations. Calling rich people for money is soul-crushing. We’d all be better off if politicians only needed to worry about representing the people that elected them.
Finally, we are all sick and tired of these mass shootings! It is time to introduce Democracy Dollars so that we can elect people who would actually represent us in all 50 states, make laws that are actually good for the American people, and stop the killings of innocent American people!!!
You may also be interested in reading these articles below:
- Let Democracy Dollars (aka Democracy Voucher) Stop The Killings Of Innocent American People
- Jacinda Ardern’s Commencement Speech At Harvard University & Her View On Trade & Gun Control
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