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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

  • ten people at a grocery store.

  • Shortly after the initial shock and grief, renewed

  • momentum for gun safety picked up steam in

  • Washington, D.C.

  • before.

  • 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

  • meaningful legislation.

  • 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

  • decades.

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

  • tragedies have heard their message loud and clear.

  • We must do something.

  • That's not stopping backlash from Second Amendment

  • advocates. Today they are coming.

  • After Americans, law abiding American citizens, Second

  • Amendment.

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

  • for sporting events, for sporting activities all the

  • time. That's pretty common.

  • In a recent Supreme Court case, could have a huge

  • impact on concealed carry laws.

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

  • From gun violence.

  • With so much changing, can the gun industry survive a

  • polarized nation?

  • 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

  • means they have a higher rate of fire.

  • 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

  • of the problem.

  • 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

  • main category of gun deaths in America?

  • 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

  • abuse situations.

  • But the idea now is to take each of those different

  • problems and each of those require some different

  • solutions.

  • 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

  • United States.

  • Predominantly, most Republican lawmakers are

  • hesitant to pass new legislation, which could be

  • seen as curtailing gun rights.

  • Nationally, there tends to be little movement on major

  • bills because of this that could be changing with the

  • Safer Communities Act.

  • 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

  • school safety.

  • 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

  • deal. And we should celebrate that.

  • That some parts are very promising, other parts

  • perhaps less so.

  • 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.

  • In some Democrat controlled states.

  • New pushes to increase gun safety are resulting in

  • legislation in Republican majority states.

  • It appears unlikely that any new legislation that

  • puts new restrictions on guns could gain traction.

  • States are an incubator for this issue, and of course

  • you're going to see things moving forward and things

  • moving back. When I look at the landscape in the States,

  • though, it's much more advancement for gun safety

  • than Byzantine laws that make us all less safe.

  • They're not actually getting at any root causes, and they

  • all have very serious constitutional concerns.

  • When you look at raising the minimum age for gun

  • purchase or possession to individuals who are 21.

  • You're dealing with a fundamental right of

  • citizenship and a segment of the population that, for

  • all other intents and purposes, are legal adults.

  • 18 to 20 year olds vote.

  • They serve on juries.

  • One final hurdle for national legislation is the

  • Supreme Court. The conservative wing of the

  • court currently holds a 6-3 majority and will for years

  • to come. This also presents a problem for states that

  • try to pass gun control legislation as these laws

  • can be challenged in court and eventually struck down

  • as unconstitutional.

  • In the last three months, the stocks of Ruger and

  • Smith and Wesson, two publicly traded companies

  • that make firearms, have had mixed success.

  • They've begun to bounce back since the Supreme Court

  • ruling that overturned New York state concealed carry

  • rules. Stock prices for these same companies have

  • seen constant gains over the past several years,

  • despite the growing number of mass shootings like the

  • one in Las Vegas that left 60 dead and more than 400

  • injured in 2017.

  • One point of contention in the gun debate is the amount

  • of liability that these companies should hold.

  • In California, for example, some lawmakers are calling

  • for gun owners to hold liability insurance.

  • Other states have their own proposals.

  • Delaware, that is thinking about removing the

  • restriction on suing the gun industry for its

  • products.

  • So this goes back to to their 2004, 2005 law called

  • the Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act.

  • And again, I think there's a lot of misunderstandings

  • about what this law does.

  • It is not some broad sweeping immunity for gun

  • manufacturers or sellers.

  • What it does that is at its core is say you cannot try

  • to sue gun manufacturers and sellers who legally sell

  • their firearms in compliance with state and

  • federal laws. You can't sue them for damages that that

  • occur after someone somewhere down the line

  • takes that firearm and uses it illegally to harm others.

  • If there's so many things which are dangerous to

  • society. The tobacco industry went through that.

  • Other industries, you know, at the very least civilly,

  • you know, they should have to pay the the cost of what

  • their products are inflicting on our society if

  • they want to make money off this.

  • There's two sides to that equation. So they should

  • have to pay the cost as well.

  • Meanwhile, the Supreme Court has ruled on a case out of

  • New York that could have ramifications for concealed

  • carry throughout the US.

  • In light of today's ruling by the United States Supreme

  • Court in this case, we cannot idly stand by and

  • just watch our streets be flooded with guns due to

  • more people being permitted to legally carry firearms in

  • public.

  • So I think this is just going to be the court

  • telling these minority of states, look, it's time the

  • Constitution demands this.

  • You've got to sort of get get on board with this

  • constitutional framework.

  • There are many state laws that are in place now that

  • might be challenged and many new ideas, new policy

  • proposals might have to overcome another hurdle

  • before they're passed.

In Uvalde, Texas, a teenager wielding a semi-automatic

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