The latest mass shootings have prompted gun safety advocates to renew their push for tighter rules. But so far, they are losing the battle.
A family pays their respects next to crosses bearing the names of Tuesday's shooting victims at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, Thursday, May 26, 2022. of Gloucester, who knows first hand the grief and trauma families are suffering.
The school shooting in Uvalde, Texas, left 19 children and two teachers dead. And it came just 10 days after a shooting by a white supremacist killed 10 more people in a Buffalo supermarket. The high court is hearing a challenge to a century-old law in New York that restricts who can carry a gun in public and requires people to obtain a special license.
Levine objects to giving licensing officials — police chiefs, in most cases — the power to decide whether or not a person can avail themselves of their right to bear arms.Many observers believe the Supreme Court's conservative majority will agree with that argument and strike down the New York law. If so, Levine says similar laws in a handful of other states, including Massachusetts, could be overturned as well.
"There has not been a day in any child's life — born since 2000 — that there has not been a risk of being massacred with firearms in their schools," he said. Wallace argues that better laws and policies are needed to deal with the"very small percentage" of people who suffer from mental illness and are dangerous.
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