Congress has rarely acted. But gun laws have been changing.
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For decades, the US Congress failed to make meaningful movement on gun reform in the aftermath of mass shootings. But that weak federal response has obscured another story: that state gun laws change after mass shootings all the time. And a study found that, in Republican-controlled state legislatures, a mass shooting roughly doubles the number of laws loosening gun restrictions in the next year.
In this video we look at Texas, where decades of mass shootings in the US have been met with laws that expand gun access. We spoke with Flo Rice, a survivor of the 2018 Santa Fe High School shooting, where a gunman killed 10 people. Flo was shot six times. She and her husband, Scot, became advocates for gun safety, and tried to get tighter gun laws passed in Texas. Watch the piece above to see what happened, and what their story reveals about who has power when it comes to gun policy in the US.
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Here’s the 2020 study on gun laws we reference in the video: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0047272719301446
The Giffords Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence has lots of resources to understand gun laws in the US. We mention that the US has only had a few major federal laws enacted on guns. You can learn more about some of them here: https://giffords.org/lawcenter/gun-laws/policy-areas/other-laws-policies/key-federal-regulation-acts/
The Texas Tribune has lots of information on the state’s gun laws. Here is one of James Barragán’s recent articles: https://www.texastribune.org/2022/05/30/texas-democrats-gun-control-uvalde/
The Texas Tribune also has this timeline that helped us develop ours:
https://apps.texastribune.org/features/2019/texas-10-years-of-mass-shootings-timeline/
The Texas Political Project tracks public opinion on gun laws every few months: https://texaspolitics.utexas.edu/polling/search?fulltext_search=AND&fulltext=should+gun+laws+be+more+or+less+strict#overall
The RAND Corporation has been tracking gun laws across the country in their database: https://www.rand.org/pubs/tools/TLA243-2-v2.html
OpenSecrets has lots of data and resources on lobbying and political contributions: https://www.opensecrets.org/news/2022/05/texas-is-a-top-target-for-gun-rights-lobbying-and-political-contributions
Chapters:
The gun cycle: 00:00
The study: 1:41
Texas: 3:12
Gun laws across the US: 7:11
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Uhhh we have over 20,000 firearm legislative laws on the books if account for All Federal, State, an town etc- the Vast majority of those regulations have been passed in the last 50 years. So we have increased Firearm regulation Ten fold since like 1930-50… It appears Firearm laws don't work
Gun control is like preventing DUI by making it difficult for sober drivers to own a car.
We need a bullet ban. Ban the sale of bullets, powder, primers and casings to most private citizens. Allow for certain use cases eg: agricultural professionals, security, off duty police and armorers. If WWIII breaks out people can still be armed and bullets can be made free to purchase.
weird how usa got solutions to everything except gun violence…never understood this, coming from europe
That woman is a true warrior.
Gun rights are winning. As the government and police are demonstrating unwillingness or incompetance at defending people, even those normally averse to guns are educating themselves and taking steps to take responsibility for the safety of themselves and others. We're nearing half the population owning guns or living with someone who does. With a massive surge in first time gun buyers in the last few years by mostly liberal democrats, it's getting harder for anti-gun politicians to convince people to give up their rights.
The reason some states loosen gun laws following mass shootings reflects Maslow’s rule: if all you have is a hammer, every problem looks like a nail. When the only tool you have to resolve problems is a gun …
I would be PRO GUN if I WERE ALLOWED TO OWN ONE LIKE MY GOVERNMENTS SAYS ALL ITS CITIZENS CAN
Because liberal ILLEGAL gun laws get challenged in court and those laws are determined to be ILLEGAL (NO duh) and so the ILLEGAL laws get struck down. Simple
Changing the laws about guns has been proven to be highly ineffective, the best approach to stopping mass shootings would be to look at the people committing them, instead of making endless gun control laws that will always do nothing to prevent school shooting!
If you're not in favor of the 2nd Amendment and the Constitution, you should strongly consider that you might be living in the wrong country.
as someone not from the US, it is shocking to hear about all these shootings and the prevelance of guns in the USA. now, i believe that the 2nd amendment shouldn't exist (at least not in its current form), rather, i believe the USA should have similar gun laws to the UK.
– Licenses for all gun owners (extensive federal-mandated training to ensure that this person can safely operate the firearm, including theory and practical exams)
– Interviews with police officers, and showing where the guns will be locked up securely, and if it is suitable. it must be seen and checked off as okay, a locked cabinet with a key hidden, and all ammo to be stored seperately in a seperate location in the home
– psychological assesments and absolutely no history of mental health disorders
– that the gun is being used in exceptional circumstances and only those (defending cattle for farmers, and also clay pidgen shooting is allowed within this)
– yearly visits to ensure procedures put in place for the situation are being followed at all times
-police officers should not carry firearms on the regular, rather a system where armed officers exist, but must go through extensive training to obtain their certificate allowing them to use the weapons (ARVs), and also trained in non-lethal weapons, lethal weapons only as an absolute LAST resort, this means that regular patrol officers don't have firearms, and therefore appear to be less confronting as a result
this is all my opinion, tell me what you think! <3
To make this balanced it would have been interesting to interview someone who stopped a shooter using his right to own a gun. And then show gun statistics related to whether citizens with guns have a significant effect on preventing shootings. Since that seems to be the big separation point between the two parties and I’m sure there is evidence showing if it’s a good idea or not to arm individuals.
Problem: How can we stop people being killed by lunatics with guns?
Option A: Introduce some gun controls
Option B: Give more people more access to more guns!
American logic…
guns are not the problem. its people
More depopulation is what
Money talks, common sense doesn't!
Congress can pass laws on gun legislation, but they won't, because too many politicians ( mostly Republicans) have always and currently take bribes from the NRA!
gun laws not gonna prevent people looking for gun, gave them big "responsibility" might do the work for example let permitless gun concealed carry but any incident with gun involved get life sentence and if its a crime then it is death penalty
Guns make the policy makers so much money. Why would they care if the kids or “their” people are at risk from it.
What they dont tell you is that guns have saved more lives in the us then they have taken, the majority of firearm deaths are suicides, the majority of gun related murders are gang related….
We do not live in a Democracy, we live in a Republic. It doesn't matter what you want. 2nd amendment is LAW!
Because America doesn’t learn
I bet it’s all Russia’s fault.
The main thing with restricting gun laws people don’t realize is it mainly own puts hassle on law abiding citizens. If someone can’t legally buy a gun and still want one they will find a way. Straw purchases, stolen firearms, ghost guns…. Maybe quit sending billions halfway across the world and put into schools.