'I believe there are things in this law will actually reduce gun violence,' Dr. Pierre Atlas, Senior Lecturer at IUPUI, said.
The bipartisan bill, which was supported by Indiana Republican Senator Todd Young and 14 other Republicans, includes money for mental health, school safety and more. It also implements a waiting period on gun purchases for those under age 21. It was opposed by the NRA.
"What's good about this law, it's precise ... it has a lot of different elements to it. I believe there are things in this law will actually reduce gun violence," Atlas said."I think the two goals of this bill are to go after or to reduce access to firearms by people who probably shouldn't be having them and also to greatly increase funding for mental health, red flag laws, school safety, stuff like that," Atlas said.
"It's so unnecessary for us to have the level of gun violence that we do," Helmke told WRTV."There's no perfect solution, there's no one law that's going to stop all the gun violence. Evil does exist, there are bad people, but we need to try to make it harder for them to do these bad things."—Expanded background checks: State and local juvenile and mental health records of gun purchasers will be part of federal background checks for buyers age 18 to 20.
—Mental health: The bill will expand community behavioral health clinics, help states bolster mental health programs in schools and provide more mental health consultations remotely.
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