As local leaders point fingers about the cause of the shootings, we should take a serious look at Texas' lax firearms laws.
showed that in states without mandated universal background checks,"for every 1% increase in state-level firearm ownership, there was a 12.4% increase in the odds of a firearm assault on a law enforcement officer."
Given their party's refusal to discuss any kind of gun reform, GOP politicians' claims to"back the blue" are all hat and no cattle. But does anyone really think those extra five years will deter a single criminal? We've already got 2 million people in prison, more than any other nation on the planet. Can anyone seriously contend that we're not throwing the book hard enough at lawbreakers?
Let's get real. It's highly unlikely that anybody's first criminal offense will be shooting a cop. That means any such assailant will almost always have an extensive rap sheet which bad-faith critics can point to and ask why the shooter isn't rotting in prison.
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