"Yet the firearms industry and gun lobby are doing all of these things and more in their aggressive efforts to market guns to children".
Yet unlike firearms, cars and drivers are heavily regulated by the government, from emissions standards to annual inspections to safety features, and so forth.
A coroner I knew used to say, when examining the body of yet another firearm victim, "Another case of lead poisoning". There is much truth in that statement.
"Better training, securing firearms, yet not making them inaccessible to authorized owners".
Federal law bars felons from purchasing and possessing firearms, yet every year thousands of felons across the country have those rights reinstated, often with little or no review.
Children have to be kept away from firearms, yet, at the same time, instructed in the joy and skill of them.
Yet paradoxically, while a firearm suggests a higher risk of injury or death, the absence of a firearm does not necessarily imply lesser risk.
Yet most experts expect firearm sales to continue, and even accelerate, as gun owners who fear new restrictions rush out to add to their arsenals before any rules can take effect.
Pistorius used a 9mm Parabellum pistol when he shot Steenkamp; it was the only gun for which he held a licence but, as it turned out, he kept an arsenal of other weapons for which he had applied, but not yet been granted, firearm licences.
What troubled many in France was the fact that Durn had been receiving psychiatric treatment for 20 years, and had previously threatened a doctor with a firearm, yet as the member of a gun club he was in legal possession of the two Glock semi-automatic pistols and the.357 Magnum he used to kill his victims.
Yet in the case of firearms, the gun lobby (enabled by craven politicians) has for years tried to block even research on how to reduce gun deaths.
