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.
All men, however highly educated, retain some superstitious inklings.
I'd done all the things I thought a person had to do in order to be successful and fulfilled, like getting a great education and becoming a lawyer, and yet there was zero spark in my life. But there was no light-bulb moment. It was gradual. In the early 1990s, I decided to experiment and try some new ways of living.
Always keep your mind as bright and clear as the vast sky, the great ocean, and the highest peak, empty of all thoughts. Always keep your body filled with light and heat. Fill yourself with the power of wisdom and enlightenment.
If we become increasingly humble about how little we know, we may be more eager to search.
Rising early and scorning laziness, remaining calm in time of strife, faultless in conduct and clever in actions. One like this will be praised.
Much ingenuity with a little money is vastly more profitable and amusing than much money without ingenuity.
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