To believe that gunlovers should be allowed to keep guns is to ignore a fact: gunlovers are shooting people, and it seems like they are doing it almost every day.
Six dead at a nursing home in North Carolina.
Three dead police officers in Pennsylvania.
A gunloving mother kills her son, and then herself.
A man kills his estranged wife and their children. Another shoots his five kids. One dead, four wounded at a church camp.
Fourteen dead in Binghamton, New York.
Two dead in a Michigan community college.
Very often the "law abiding" gunlovers buy the guns and then sell them to criminals.
"An Elmwood Park gun shop that is a defendant in Chicago's lawsuit against the firearms industry Wednesday was named among the 10 worst gun dealers in America by a national gun control group.
Breit & Johnson Sporting Goods Inc. sold 347 guns between December 1989 and January 1996 that later were traced to crimes, including 27 murders, according to figures released by the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence.
Breit & Johnson's firearms license was revoked by the ATF in October 2001 because "they weren't maintaining proper records of firearm ," Ahern said. The company has been allowed to continue selling guns while appealing that decision, according to Ahern.
Breit & Johnson is among 39 named defendants in a federal lawsuit brought against gunmakers and dealers by Chicago and Cook County. Defendants include gunmakers Glock Inc. and Smith & Wesson Corp., and several Chicago-area gun dealers."
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