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Should the U.S. have stricter gun control laws?

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After last week's shooting in Colorado, many Christian leaders are calling for stricter gun control laws. Where do you stand on this issue?

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Tracy Simmons
Tracy Simmons
Tracy Simmons is an award-winning journalist specializing in religion reporting and digital entrepreneurship. In her approximate 20 years on the religion beat, Simmons has tucked a notepad in her pocket and found some of her favorite stories aboard cargo ships in New Jersey, on a police chase in Albuquerque, in dusty Texas church bell towers, on the streets of New York and in tent cities in Haiti. Simmons has worked as a multimedia journalist for newspapers across New Mexico, Texas, Connecticut and Washington. She is the executive director of FāVS.News, a digital journalism start-up covering religion news and commentary in Spokane, Washington. She also writes for The Spokesman-Review and national publications. She is a Scholarly Associate Professor of Journalism at Washington State University.

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Megan
Megan
12 years ago

I believe we should have stricter gun control laws, but more importantly, we should fund mental health services so those in need have better access to care.

Sam Fletcher
Sam Fletcher
12 years ago

I agree with Megan. There should be a two-pronged effort to both screen the population for sociopathic individuals and do our best to keep the tools of mass murder out of their hands.

Dennis
Dennis
12 years ago

Absolutely not. Strict gun control laws never have and never will stop evil, crazy people from doing their evil thing with guns. Four of the five worst gun massacres have happened in countries with much stricter gun control laws than ours. Liberals always use this type of tragedy to try to push their anti-freedom gun control agenda.

Eric Blauer
Eric Blauer
12 years ago

Im more concerned about the trend of suicide bombs than guns. Bombing is the preferred ugly act of mass terror. We can take the guns and still not stop someone from walking into a school, a movie theater or driving up to a Government building and detonating themselves.

I think “stricter laws” has to be defined before an answer could be given on my part.

I think screenings or a test in the vein of a drivers license makes sense to me.

Penny Imes
Penny Imes
12 years ago

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SpokaneFAVS
SpokaneFAVS
12 years ago

Penny, feel free to email me at tracysimmons@favs.news and we can talk. I tried emailing you, but it got sent back to me.

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