State Reps Discuss Gun Control, Budget with McLean Residents
Legislators discussed priorities for Virginia's 2013 General Assembly in Wednesday town hall.
On Wednesday evening, when Virginia Sen. Janet Howell (D-32nd District) announced her plans to introduce legislation that would fix a loophole allowing Virginia residents to purchase firearms from some dealers at gun shows without undergoing background checks, more than 200 McLean residents showed their support with a round of applause. Similar legislation has been introduced during past legislative sessions, but has not passed, Howell said. "I’m hopeful that this year we’ve had tragedies of such magnitude that reason will prevail," she said. But reforming the Commonwealth's gun control laws is only one of many legislative priorities lawmakers representing McLean voiced Wednesday during a town hall meeting at the McLean Community Center. …
Greg Brandon
3:01 pm on Sunday, January 6, 2013
The mere presence of a gun increases the risk that it will be used. As this 2004 study from the American Journal of Epidemiology titled "Guns in the Home and Risk of a Violent Death in the Home: Findings from a National Study" (http://aje.oxfordjournals.org/content/160/10/929.full) finds "Those persons with guns in the home were at greater risk than those without guns in the home of dying from a … more ›