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Fox 8 Live – by Allison Braxton
New Orleans, LA — Six months after the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School, parents of the Newtown victims are launching a national drive to reduce gun violence.”
Today, the bus tour stopped at Duncan Plaza in Downtown, New Orleans.
In the pouring rain, one by one, family members of gun violence told their story.
“My 14-year-old son was murdered in the streets,” says Cinthia Finch.
Then Neil Heslin told his story.
“My son Jesse was killed in December and it was a senseless murder,” says Heslin.
Six year old Jesse Lewis was one of the victims killed in the Newtown shooting.
On Saturday, the victims’ families are launching the “No More Names,” national drive to reduce gun violence bus tour.
Over the next 100 days, the tour will travel to 25 states to urge lawmakers to push for tougher laws and background checks to stop the epidemic of gun violence.
“Since then there’s been over 6,000 deaths to gun violence, 33 or 35 deaths a day and it’s shocking because of the number of deaths that occur because of gun violence,” says Heslin.
But Jason Gregory of Gretna Gunworks says tougher laws have been in place for more than 20 years.
Gregory adds that Connecticut has some of the toughest gun laws in the country.
“It is a second amendment right to have a gun. Every one of these guys from Columbine on down, they were all on psychopathic drugs so there were mental health issues,” says Gregory.
Gun rights advocates say the judges should be held more responsible for allowing criminals with a lengthy criminal history to get out of jail.
“A guy shoots people at mother’s day whose already had a felony conviction for heroin with a stolen gun any amount of gun control is going to stop that. Any background check you know who never says anything is the judges, they let these guys out, why do they let them out. That’s part of the problem. It’s a multi faceted problem. It’s not the gun, it’s the people,” says Gregory.
To reduce “gun violence”
Here we go again, they’re using that silly term that implies that inanimate objects (guns) can be violent…
When OJ killed two people with a knife, we never heard the media mention & decry “knife violence”.
Why not?
Criminals will always have guns look at the states that have become gun free. How many gun murders have taken place and could they have been prevented has the victims had a firearm for defense? Look at the statistics of victims that survived attacks because they had a gun. Now look at the citizens that prevented crimes with guns that was really something to see.
Guns do not kill people, people kill people and if not with a gun then a knife. Have you any idea how many die from beatings with fists? Cars? Alcohol? Doctors? Boats? etc.
This whole Agenda is dumb and out of control. When the guns are taken does that mean nobody not even the rich and powerful wont have them. Corporations? Diane Feinstein? Body guards? Criminals? Surely you all jest.