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.
I consider looseness with words no less of a defect than looseness of the bowels.
If you will just start with the idea that this is a hard world, it will all be much simpler.
The greatest mistake you can make in life is continually fearing that you'll make one.
Ignorance, when it is voluntary, is criminal; and he may be properly charged with evil who refused to learn how he might prevent it.
Nothing ever goes away until it has taught us what we need to know. Even if we run a hundred miles an hour to the other side of the continent, we find the very same problem awaiting us when we arrive.
I was blessed with a sense of my own destiny. I have never sold myself short. I have never judged myself by other people's standards. I have always expected a great deal of myself, and if I fail, I fail myself. So failure or reversal does not bring out resentment in me because I cannot blame others for any misfortune that befalls me.
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