What other countries show us about America's gun violence epidemic:
"What other countries have done demonstrates that you can have policymakers react quickly after a horrific tragedy to make the country and communities safer from gun violence," Chelsea Parsons, vice president of Gun Violence Prevention at the Center for American Progress, a nonpartisan policy institute, told ABC News."I think we sometimes in this country, we're too accustomed to federal policymaking being almost an impossibility when it comes to an issue like gun violence.
The U.S. stands apart from nearly every country in the world, not its just peers, with a constitutional right to bear arms -- though that doesn't mean the federal government can't ban certain firearms or enact other restrictions, according to Allison Anderman, senior counsel and director of local policy for the Giffords Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence.as a defense to any and all gun laws, but it's not legally accurate," Anderman told ABC News.
Sandy Hook Elementary School before being torn down to make way for a new building on the same property, Oct. 21, 2013.
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