Name: アメリカの銃社会の行く末（The Future Of U.S. Gun Reform After Uvalde And Buffalo）
Uploaded: 2022-07-02T21:25:13.000Z
Duration: 8 min 43 s
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In Uvalde, Texas, a teenager wielding a semi-automatic

rifle killed 19 students and two teachers in Buffalo,

New York. A white supremacist shot and killed

Shortly after the initial shock and grief, renewed

momentum for gun safety picked up steam in

We have not seen this type of bipartisan type of coming

together to push this legislation in decades.

Recent mass shootings have mobilized gun safety

advocates, but their efforts did not result in

Now, with a new gun safety bill signed by President

Biden, the shootings in Uvalde and Buffalo may have

spurred the most meaningful changes to firearms laws in

All of us who have met with survivors in the wake of the

tragedies have heard their message loud and clear.

That's not stopping backlash from Second Amendment

After Americans, law abiding American citizens, Second

Liberties. A lot of people have AR 15 that's used for

for sporting events, for sporting activities all the

In a recent Supreme Court case, could have a huge

This decision has made every single one of us less safe.

With so much changing, can the gun industry survive a

And what is the future of guns in America?

Recent mass shootings in Texas and New York have been

carried out by semi-automatic rifles, which

And they also can have larger magazines, which

allows for more ammunition, which means more people can

be killed or wounded in a shorter time span.

Semi-automatic weapons and these large magazines can

kill a lot of people before a good guy ever arrives.

Not all think that the weapons used are at the root

I know this is sort of grotesque and uncomfortable

to think about, but when you give an individual who

is bent on violence 78 minutes to barricade himself

in a room with fourth graders, it doesn't matter

what his magazine capacity is, it doesn't matter

whether he has a shotgun or a revolver or a

semiautomatic rifle without a pistol grip.

At that point, you are going to see horrific

carnage and the failures come before that.

Gun safety proponents hope that by breaking down and

fixing certain problems with gun ownership, that

some issues can be addressed politically.

What do you think is the main cause of gun or the

Suicide. And the biggest chunk of the murder is 90%

of the murders. It's mostly gang and gang violence in

the cities that we have mass shootings, we have

accidents, and we have other things like domestic

But the idea now is to take each of those different

problems and each of those require some different

Meanwhile, the evolving technology of guns since the

founding of the nation, which now fire quicker, have

more powerful bullets and are much easier to use, have

run into the political realities of the modern

Predominantly, most Republican lawmakers are

hesitant to pass new legislation, which could be

Nationally, there tends to be little movement on major

bills because of this that could be changing with the

This bipartisan bill passed in both the Senate, in the

House and signed by President Biden will create

tougher background checks for gun buyers who are 21

and under. It will close the so called boyfriend

loophole restricting gun purchases by domestic

abusers. It will also fund mental health initiatives,

grants to assist red flag laws and moves to increase

I think for those in the movement who have longed for

change, the idea that we could get ten Republican

senators to endorse any kind of package is a big

That some parts are very promising, other parts

I also think it falls short of both what what President

Biden was was hoping for, but also falls short of what

we might, as researchers say, is is the best case

scenario, which might be closing the private sale

background check loophole and perhaps trying to

implement a licensing system for purchasers.

New pushes to increase gun safety are resulting in

legislation in Republican majority states.