No single law could have stopped the tragedy in Charleston, but incremental steps can reduce the risk of future attacks. Please consider disabling it for our site, or supporting our work in one of these ways Subscribe Now > There is of course no "one law" that would prevent all gun massacres, any more than there is "one law" that would eliminate all house fires, all fatal car crashes, or all smoking deaths.
Not all American citizens have "the legal and Constitutional right to have a gun," New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Monday, calling for the nation's gun control laws to be tightened in the wake of the nation's mass shootings and recent terror attacks in San Bernardino.
Not all American citizens have "the legal and Constitutional right to have a gun," New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Monday, calling for the nation's gun control laws to be tightened in the wake of the nation's mass shootings and recent terror attacks in San Bernardino.
It seems like every we look up there is another incident of domestic terrorism, and specifically, to use the language that President Obama has been perplexingly wary of using, radical Islamist terrorism. From the Boston Marathon Bombing in 2013, to the more recent shooting in San Bernardino, the "lone wolf attack" feels like the new American reality.
Three years ago on Monday, a heavily armed gunman walked into Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, and started shooting. When he was done, he had killed 26 people, including 20 children, most of them with an assault-style rifle equipped with high-capacity magazines. He saved his final shot, reportedly fired from a handgun, for himself.