How much could the reforms in the Senate gun bill have done to prevent some of the worst mass shootings of the past decade? MatthewStieb reports
Photo: Yasin Ozturk/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images There appears to be a good chance that Congress will pass meaningful gun-control measures for the first time in decades, following a nationwide outcry after the horrifying attacks at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, and a supermarket in Buffalo, New York. But how much could these bipartisan reforms, as currently outlined, have done to prevent those and other mass shootings in the U.S.
But red-flag laws are not a cure-all in the 19 states where they have been passed. And as Johns Hopkins Center for Injury Research and Policy director Shannon Frattaroli said in an interview, they require cooperation at the ground level. “The impact is not so much in the details of the policy but in how it’s being implemented” by local judges and law enforcement, she said. They also may not be broad enough to apply in some cases.
The framework includes adding, for the first time, a requirement that the National Instant Criminal Background Check System, which is run by the FBI, also search juvenile-justice and mental-health records for gun buyers under 21. Senators are reportedly still debating how much extra time law-enforcement officials would have to conduct these checks.
Behavioral interventions in schools, particularly threat assessments, are designed so that a student can change their behavior before they become violent. While it is difficult to gauge how many shootings never happened because they were prevented by such interventions, threat assessments are considered by experts to be an effective measure to predict which students may actually be considering an act of violence.
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