Note the complete lack of any breakdown of the reasons for the various shootings.
Just the type of completely uselessness, we have come to expect from our media.
If you read the article, there are links to stories about five of the deaths. One was an autistic kid who died from a self inflicted gunshot while at an outdoor shooting range with his father in Santa Barbara, one was an 18 year old pregnant girl killed by her 17 year boyfriend, 2 were killed by their father, one committed suicide in the school bathroom, one was a girl killed in her school by a 17 year old. The HuffPo article mentions a kid in South Bend who was gunned down by unknown assailents while walking with his grandmother. They also mention the shooting death of a 13 year old in South Bend, but when you click on the link to the article you find that he was shot and killed by the resident of an apartment while attempting a home invasion robbery.
So, in 4 of the 5 first examples you have instances where people should not have been or it was illegal for them to be in possession of a firearm. We have no idea who killed the kid walking with his grandmother, I speculate some gang bangers taking potshots. The thirteen year old, who was killed in December by the way, not one of the 73 HuffPo, was killed committing a violent crime. What were the circumstances surrounding the rest of the deaths HuffPo is touting? Domestic violence? Gang related? The result of criminal activity?
Without facts, it's just a story. Based on what I read in the HuffPo article, no laws on the books and no laws yet to be written could have prevented the deaths and tragedies to which the refer. Well, none short of an all out ban of guns in the U.S. followed by a house to house search and confiscation of every firearm across the country...
And that will never happen.
I agree with this post and thanks for your diligence.
But the last sentence shows a confidence that might be gun ownership's downfall.
Where do you get your confidence that "that will never happen"?
I can assure it....it can happen.
I have explained the mechanisms in MANY threads. They won't get there in one step, or instantly.
But they are reeling in gun rights incrementally and have been for decades.
They have a policy of never letting a good tragedy go to waste. Every gun tragedy is flogged into the public's face by the media making it appear as if guns are the root of all evil. They are patient. A generation has been bred and indoctrinated to believe that manta. They are coming of age to vote now.
Obamacare - could never happen (but it did)
A black President could never happen (but it did)
The IRS cannot be used as a political weapon (but it was)
The mistake you make and others like you make is overconfidence in the Constitution protecting YOU....when in reality....noone is protecting the Constitution. And all that is required for evil men to prevail is for good men to do nothing.
One side is silent....one side is marching on Washington today as I write.
Venezuela has a Constitution to prevent dictators from seizing power. The Right remained silent. oops.