Dem Rep. Nadler Suggests Australia-Style Gun Ban: ‘We Know What To Do’

‘We know what to do to decrease gun violence’

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NADLER: "I mean, you look at the statistics, every other country -- the number of people killed by guns, 42, 72, 130, the United States 33,000 a year. And the only real variable is the easy availability of guns in this country. Australia had a school shooting a number of years ago, they -- they -- they banned assault weapons, they did a number of other things and they haven’t had it since. We know what to do. The only question is will we do it? And I haven’t seen the president or any of the Republicans step up to the plate and evince a willingness to do anything meaningful. And we know what we ought to do. We have to eliminate the loopholes in the background checks so that you have to pass a background check wherever you buy a gun not just from a licensed gun dealer. We have to ban assault weapons, ban large capacity magazines. And then there are a number -- those are the important ones. Then there are a number of subsidiary ones, better mental health, you know, ban sales to people who can’t fly, ban sales to people who commit domestic violence, even if they’re not married and so forth."
 

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