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History of gun violence

Geneva County, Ala.
Carthage, NC
Binghamton, NY
Fort Hood, Texas
Parkland, WA
Manchester, Conn.
Tucson, Ariz.
Seal Beach, CA
Norcross, GA
Oakland, CA
Seattle, WA
Aurora, CO
Oak Creek, Wis.
Minneapolis, MN
Newtown, CT
Herkimer County, NY
Federal Way, WA
Manchester, IL
Santa Monica, CA
Hialeah, FL
Washington, D.C.
March 10, 2009
March 29, 2009
April 3, 2009
November 5, 2009
November 29, 2009
August 3, 2010
January 8, 2011
October 12, 2011
February 22, 2012
April 2, 2012
May 31, 2012
July 20, 2012
August 5, 2012
September 27, 2012
December 14, 2012
March 13, 2013
April 21, 2013
April 24, 2013
June 7, 2013
July 26, 2013
September 16, 2013
11 dead
8 dead
14 dead
13 dead
5 dead
9 dead
6 dead
8 dead
5 dead
7 dead
6 dead
12 dead
7 dead
7 dead
27 dead
6 dead
5 dead
5 dead
6 dead
7 dead
13 dead
6 injured
3 injured
4 injured
30 injured

2 injured
14 injured
1 injured



59 injured
4 injured
2 injured






8 injured

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The Brady Law

James Brady, the press secretary of President Ronald Reagan, was shot in the head during an attempt to assassinate Reagan and was left partially paralyzed. On November 30, 1993, President Bill Clinton signed the Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act into law. Essentially, the law requires background checks before a firearm can be purchased. The National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS), which is maintained by the FBI, is how the background checks are performed. It only realistically impacts felons and fugitives of the law. Even if the law is ignored, prosecution and conviction of the criminal is unlikely. In the year after the act was passed, 250 cases were brought forward regarding the law being broken, and 217 of those cases were thrown out.

National rifle association (NRA) and the brady law

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In 1987, after the Brady Law was first proposed, the NRA lobbied, spending millions of dollars, to keep the bill from passing. Although the bill did ultimately pass, the waiting period for handgun sales went from five days to not existing. Once the bill became law, the NRA funded lawsuits in 9 states, claiming that it was unconstitutional on the grounds that it could not force the chief law enforcement officer to conduct background checks while waiting for the NICS to go online. After being struck down as unconstitutional, local and state law enforcement kept doing the onsite background checks anyway.


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