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7 Gun Violence Gun Violence 7 Tom Price distribute n June, four months after 17 of their classmates and teachers were killed by a formeror student armed with a semi-automatic rifle, students and recent graduates of Marjory Stoneman Douglas IHigh School in Parkland, Fla., took to the road. Their first stops on a nationwide, summerlong bus tour: Chicago and its suburbs, where they recounted the horrors of Feb. 14 to large crowds and urged young people to support candidates forpost, office who back tougher gun laws. “This issue affects every community, and we’re all fighting for our lives,” said Ryan Deitsch, a Parkland student. “We’ll make our voices heard, register young people to vote, get them to the polls and change America’s gun policies so that these senseless tragedies stop.”1 The students’ activism — coupled with public revulsion at a Toya Sarno Jordan/Stringer/Getty Images Toya copy, series of mass shootings over the last year — has spurred many Gabriella Danilo, 18, from New Jersey, poses at the businesses and government officials to adopt gun restrictions that March for Our Rights rally on July 7, 2018, in Washington, D.C., one of several marches held seemed unlikely in the recent past. Indeed, gun control advocates across the country that day to defend Second are hoping the Parkland shooting marks an inflection point in their Amendment rights. Thenot demonstrations were longtime fight to change Americans’ relationship with firearms. organized in response to dozens of student-led “There’s something qualitatively different about what hap- March for Our Lives rallies held since a former pened [in Parkland] and about the response of the youth in student killed 17 students and staff members at MarjoryDo Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Parkland,” says Michael Siegel, a professor in the Community Fla., on Feb. 14. Health Sciences Department at Boston University who studies gun violence. “I don’t think it’s going to die away.” But many analysts are skeptical Congress will tighten gun laws, From CQ Researcher, and gun-rights supporters, including the National Rifle Association July 27, 2018. (NRA), say that’s a good thing. 157 Copyright ©2020 by SAGE Publications, Inc. This work may not be reproduced or distributed in any form or by any means without express written permission of the publisher. 158 RIGHTS AND LIBERTIES “As heartwarming as it is to see high school students legal age to buy a rifle from 18 to 21; banned bump organize anti-gun marches, they are no more likely to be stocks; imposed a three-day waiting period for all gun successful in busting the NRA narrative . than the purchases; and made it easier for police to seize weapons parents of Columbine and Sandy Hook,” wrote Bill and ammunition from people deemed a threat, while Scher, a political analyst for Politico Magazine, referring also enabling school districts to arm teachers. to earlier school shootings that killed a total of 39 stu- In Vermont, Republican Gov. Phil Scott signed legis- dents and staff plus three shooters. “The gun-rights com- lation passed by the Democratic-controlled Legislature munity is steeled against succumbing to sympathetic that banned high-capacity magazines, outlawed bump victims, as they have convinced themselves that they are stocks, increased the gun-purchase age to 21 and required above the politics of knee-jerk emotion.”2 background checks on all gun sales. “We don’t need more laws regulating pieces of metal,” And in GOP-controlled Oklahoma, Republican Gov. says Stephen Halbrook, a senior fellow at the Mary Fallin vetoed legislation to allow firearms to be car- Independent Institute, a conservative think tank in ried without a permit.7 Oakland, Calif. “It’s human violence. People do things, A growing number of candidates — mostly and they use all kinds of tools.” Democrats but also some Republicans — are running as Despite the skepticism, gun control supporters say supporters of gun control and opponents of the NRA, their movement has scored some striking wins since the including in such gun-friendly states as Montana, Parkland tragedy: Georgia, Alabama and Kentucky.distribute8 But the NRA remains steadfast. After the Parkland • Dick’s Sporting Goods, a Fortune 500 retail chain, shooting, the group renewed its opposition to most gun has stopped selling assault-style rifles and high-capacity control proposalsor and accused the media of loving mass ammunition magazines and is destroying its existing shootings because they increase audience size. stocks to prevent manufacturers from redistributing the Gun control advocates “don’t care about our school- guns to other retailers.3 children,” NRA Chief Executive Wayne LaPierre • Slide Fire Solutions, a Texas company that declared in mid-February, stressing that government invented the bump stock and is its primary manufac-post,must do far more to protect schools. “Evil walks among turer, said it would stop making the device, which us. And God help us if we don’t harden our schools and 9 enables semi-automatic rifles to fire like automatic ones. protect our kids.” Bump stocks were used to kill 58 concert-goers and School shootings have kept the gun control issue in wound more than 500 in Las Vegas in October.4 the public eye. Three weeks before the Parkland shoot- ing, a gunman killed two students and wounded 14 • The banking giant Citigroup said it would require other people at Marshall County High School in Benton, its retail clients to stop selling high-capacitycopy, magazines, Ky. On May 18, a shooter killed eight students and two bump stocks or any firearms to people younger than 21 staff members at Santa Fe High School in Texas and or who have not passed a state or federal background wounded 10 more. “It’s been happening everywhere,” check. Bank of America said it would stop lending to Santa Fe student Paige Curry, 17, said afterward. “I’ve manufacturers of the AR-15 and other semi-automatic always kind of felt like eventually it was going to happen 5 not rifles. here, too.”10 • United Airlines, Delta Air Lines, Hertz Corp., Other mass shootings also have attracted considerable Alamo Rent A Car and MetLife ended special discounts attention, including the Las Vegas massacre — the dead- and benefitsDo for NRA members.6 liest in modern U.S. history — and the killing of five Capital Gazette staff members at the newspaper’s office Gun control advocates also point to developments in in Annapolis, Md., on June 28. several states traditionally opposed to gun control. The three mass school shootings so far this year are In Florida, Republican Gov. Rick Scott signed a bill the most since 1997, according to James Alan Fox, a pro- passed by the GOP-controlled Legislature that raised the fessor of criminology, law and public policy at Copyright ©2020 by SAGE Publications, Inc. This work may not be reproduced or distributed in any form or by any means without express written permission of the publisher. GUN VIOLENCE 159 Northeastern University in Boston. Gun Deaths Rose Sharply There also have been more than 140 mass shootings during the first six The number of firearm-related deaths rose sharply over a recent months of this year that were not on nine-year period, from 31,593 in 2008 to more than 38,000 in 2016, school grounds.11 the latest year for which data are available from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The increase was driven primarily Definitions of “mass shooting” by a rise in suicides. vary, but among the most commonly used are a shooting incident in which Number of deaths at least four people die — or, more 40,000 broadly, at least four people are 35,000 wounded — not counting the 30,000 shooter, not involving another crime and not involving gang warfare. 20,000 Number of Deaths Despite the intense attention gen- 10,000 Caused by a Firearm, 2008-16 erated by a mass shooting, just 1 per- 0 cent of gun deaths occur in such incidents, about the same proportion 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 as deaths from accidental shootings. distribute Source: “Multiple Cause of Death, 1999-2016,” CDC WONDER Online Suicides accounted for 61 percent of Database, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for all shooting deaths in 2016 and Health Statistics, December 2017, https://tinyurl.com/ybsmcg5l homicides 35 percent. Overall, the or number of firearm-related deaths in the United States rose between 2008 and 2016, from But neither proposal has passed Congress since an 31,593 to 38,658, fueled primarily by an increase in the earlier assault-weapons ban expired in 2004, partly suicide rate, the Centers for Disease Control and because of partisan divisions in both chambers and effec- Prevention (CDC) reported.12 tive lobbying by pro-gun groups. Polling indicates that gun ownership is falling outpost, of Gun owners are more likely to take political action to favor with the public but remains popular with a sizable promote their views than those who don’t own guns, minority of Americans. According to a CBS News poll in according to a 2017 Pew Research Center survey. The 2016, 36 percent of U.S. households had at least one poll found that 21 percent of gun owners have contacted gun, down from 46 percent in 2012 and 53 percent in a public official about gun policy and 28 percent have 1994. It is the lowest level since CBS began asking the donated to an organization that takes a position on gun question in 1978. A drop in backgroundcopy, checks indi- issues. Among nonowners, those figures are 12 percent cated that the number of guns sold nationwide also fell and 10 percent, respectively.16 in 2017, after rising steadily since 2010.13 Experts also cite the NRA’s effectiveness in represent- Researchers at Harvard and Northeastern universities, ing firearm owners who oppose gun control.
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