Sen. Chappelle-Nadal Renews Call for Gun Safety
A new report finds that Missouri leads the nation in black homicides.
Sen. Maria Chappelle-Nadal, D-University City, today renewed her call for Missouri lawmakers to enact reasonable gun safety regulations in light of a new report that finds Missouri leads the nation in the number of black victims of gun violence. The Violence Policy Center, a national educational organization working to stop gun death and injury, reports that Missouri’s black homicide victimization rate is more than seven times the national average. This is the third year in a row Missouri has led the nation in this tragic statistic. The Violence Policy Center released its findings Wednesday after analyzing unpublished data from the FBI’s Supplementary Homicide Report. “I agree with the co-author of the study that this is a public health …
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2:45 pm on Thursday, February 7, 2013
“I am sure there are a number of factors that contribute to the high incidence of gun violence in our urban communities, such as persistent poverty, unemployment and drug abuse, but easy access to guns is a huge factor and it is an issue we can address with fairly simple legislative remedies.” - Huge factor? I don't buy it. While a gun certainly makes the violence more deadly, the fact that there… more ›