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The US Congress has approved the first major gun control legislation in more than a decade, broadening background checks for gun buyers in the wake of a deadly campus shooting earlier this year by a mentally ill student.
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6 responses // Congress Approves Tighter Gun Law

  • http://blogs.usatoday.com/photos/uncategorized/2007/08/...
    Been a long time coming, here's hoping that the new legislation will put an end to all the terrible shootings that the US has seen...
    mattbrawn
  • http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig/thornton4.html
    "Looking at the historical record, there is little doubt that prohibitions have had the biggest impact on crime and crime statistics. The murder rate prior to alcohol prohibition ranged between 5 and 6. During alcohol prohibition the murder rate leaped higher, and continued to climb, until alcohol prohibition was repealed in 1933, reaching a rate of almost 10 murders per 100,000 population. After the repeal of alcohol prohibition, the murder rate declined sharply throughout the Great Depression (so much for the Marxian view) and bottomed out around 1960."
    derk
  • If my knowledge of our govermental process is correct, doesn't Bush have to sign this?
    Dylan_James
  • Disgusting. Tighter restrictions only makes it difficult for law abiding citizens to be free consumers. Add that to our privacy being infringed upon once more, and we are heading for a country controlled by an unchallenged state, motivated by Utopian ideology. Sound familiar?

    Edit: By the way the NRA is hardly a gun rights association. They have folded to give away gun rights to stay alive and get more money from the members they fool into believing that they stand up for the 2nd Amendment. When the Brady Campaign and the NRA agree on something then something has to be wrong.
    Karabiner98Kurz
  • I am all for stricter gun control laws, you shouldn't be allowed to get a gun if you are mentally unstable. As long as I can get a gun when the revolution begins (isn't that what the 2nd ammendment was for after all, we had just finished fighting an oppressive government...) then I'm good.
    Kurka
  • People keep forgetting that guns don't kill people - PEOPLE kill PEOPLE. And as for gun laws, the federal government should have NO say in this. It should be left up to the states to decide the laws and regulations of guns in America. Background checks being sold as a way of protecting us.. just another way for the federal government to invade our privacy.
    amydanielle21

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