MAKING A KILLING: Guns, greed and the NRA

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(CULVER CITY, CA.) -- There seems to be little doubt that after numerous mass murders with guns the past few years that a movement is building steam in America for what some call "common sense" gun laws, not more "gun control," that at least would attempt to better protect people from the annual carnage wrought by firearms in the U.S.

Things such as background checks for all gun sales and transfers, not just gun sales at licensed retain gun stores. Even some gun owners are saying enough is enough, that something different needs to be done to stop the annual and predictable slaughter with firearms every year.

Some of the strongest voices for gun law changes are coming from women. Last year the Center for American Progress (CAP) pointed out that while 34 percent of men victimized by violent crime between 2003 and 2012 were targeted by people they knew, 65 percent of women victimized by violent crimes during the same period knew their attackers, and guns were often a huge part of those attacks.

According to a report on Elle.com, "CAP also noted that "a staggering portion of violence against women is fatal"—and driven by access to guns. Between 2001 and 2012, "6,410 women were murdered in the United States by an intimate partner using a gun—more than the total number of U.S. troops killed in action during the entirely of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars combined."

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[Duckhunter935]

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2. I'm still trying to figure out the logistics...

Of how any sort of "common sense" gun laws are ever going to get through the Senate.

Even back when there was a firm Democratic majority from 2009-2011 with a (D) in the White House, not a damn thing got done except for more guns in Federal parks.

Hillary can pontificate all she wants, but Executive Orders aren't going to cut it, not with the sheer amount of resistance Obama is facing just from trying to close the "gun-show loophole."

[Eleanors38]

3. Of course, we can blab about guns in GD. Maybe that will do it.