Background checks will never stop every criminal from getting their hands on a gun and every single act of gun violence - but the evidence is clear that it's the single most effective policy to help keep guns out of dangerous hands and save lives.
Interpretation
Background checks can't eliminate all gun violence, but they significantly reduce access to guns by dangerous individuals.
This quote emphasizes the importance of background checks as a crucial policy for gun control. While acknowledging that such measures will not completely prevent criminal access to firearms or end all gun violence, it highlights the effectiveness of background checks in reducing incidents and protecting lives by keeping guns away from individuals who pose a threat to society.
In practice
During a town hall, a speaker might quote this to advocate for stronger gun control measures.
I work tirelessly advocating for gun violence prevention and promoting common-sense gun laws that could spare other parents the pain of having their child taken by senseless gun violence - laws the NRA's leadership has fought against relentlessly.
No woman should ever have to choose between maintaining a healthy pregnancy and a paycheck.
Whether it's racism, homophobia, misogyny, transphobia, xenophobia, religious intolerance or other bias - we demand to live in a country where we can be safe to be who we are, believe what we want and love whomever we want.
It is the responsibility of intellectuals to speak the truth and expose lies.
We all wish to reach a ripe old age, but none of us are prepared to admit that we are already there.
When a person does not think, "Where shall I put it?" the mind will extend throughout the entire body and move to any place at all. . . . The effort not to stop the mind in just one place - this is discipline. Not stopping the mind is object and essence. Put it nowhere and it will be everywhere. Even in moving the mind outside the body, if it is sent in one direction, it will be lacking in nine others. If the mind is not restricted to just one direction, it will be in all ten.
Oh, to have “the word of Christ” always dwelling inside of us;-in the memory, never forgotten; in the heart, always loved; in the understanding, really grasped; with all the powers and passions of the mind fully submitted to its control!
The miser is as much in want of what he has as of what he has not.
Well-being and happiness never appeared to me as an absolute aim. I am even inclined to compare such moral aims to the ambitions of a pig.
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