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Thom's blog
Is George Zimmerman Right?
It's time to listen to George Zimmerman. Seriously, and I'll explain in a minute.
This week, the families of ten Sandy Hook victims filed a lawsuit against the gun manufacturer Bushmaster, which made the AR-15 rifle that Adam Lanza used to shoot and kill 27 people, including 20 children, on December 14th, 2012. The lawsuit, filed in Connecticut superior court, argues that Adam Lanza would not have been able to kill so many people in so little time without his “weapon of choice,” the Bushmaster-made AR-15 rifle. It says that, “the number of lives lost in those 264 seconds was made possible” by a gun that was “engineered to deliver maximum carnage with extreme efficiency.”
The lawsuit goes on to read, “As a result of selling AR-15s to the civilian market, individuals unfit to operate these weapons gain access to them...” The Sandy Hook families involved in the lawsuit also highlight the facts that “not a single state requires a mental-health examination of a potential purchaser of an AR-15,” and that purchasers are not asked to “answer questions about other individuals with whom they intend to share access.”
Requiring mental-health checks for anyone who wants to purchase and own a gun is a no-brainer and should be a requirement that both sides of the aisle can agree on. But, there should be another requirement for everyone who wants to own a gun: insurance.
Think about it. As long as guns are accessible and available, both unintentional and intentional gun deaths will happen. That’s just reality, because guns are, by definition, deadly weapons.
-Thom
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Daily Take: Is George Zimmerman right?
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Hour One: Is medical marijuana healing you?
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