3. TIL 29-yr-old Marine veteran Taylor Winston stole a truck to drive victims of th...

TIL 29-yr-old Marine veteran Taylor Winston stole a truck to drive victims of the Las Vegas shooting to the hospital. He and his girlfriend made 2 trips having to pick only the most critically injured 10 - 15 people each time after helping boost others over a fence away from the shooter.

I have a question for you. With the availability of firearms in the United States, what makes you think that slowing production will solve our problems? Education and better licensing measures would do a lot better than simply reducing the amount of firearm production. Over 156 Million firearms have been produced from 1986 to present. This doesn’t even include guns made prior or homemade builds. There is going to be a large amount of firearm production until something is done about it, which isn’t happening in the foreseeable future. More and more guns are put on the market every single day. The effort to decrease the amount will take a very long time, because they are constantly being put out. I think that if we focus on better registration and licensing that we would be in a better spot, rather than just halting firearm production. And to boot, many people have jobs in the firearm industry so those individuals will be out of jobs if the firearm companies cannot make enough money to support them.

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