A week after Arthur Lopez guarded the president and Mitt Romney, he was shot dead with an illegal gun. Now the woman who asked about gun violence at the second presidential debate would like a real answer.
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Mr. Obama is on lock for re-election, so our duty shifts to the "better" part of "more and better" democrats. I'm willing to accept that out-and-out gun control may not be the answer, but an answer of some kind - targeting mental health infrastructure and social workers? buyback programs? tougher international laws on the small arms trade? - needs to be laid out by the administration.
The prospects for our country’s law-enforcement officials are particularly grim. For the first time in 14 years, more officers are being shot dead in the line of duty than killed in car accidents, according to the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund. The death toll has risen during each of the past three years, and Officer Lopez’s murder only serves as further evidence of this disturbing phenomenon.
The root of the problem, however, is no great mystery. Lethal gaps in our current gun laws allow firearms to fall into the wrong hands all too easily. Criminals regularly buy illegal guns online through private, unlicensed dealers, who are not required by law to conduct criminal-background checks. In fact, about 40 percent of guns are sold through these private sellers, according to a Police Foundation study.