Some watered-down gun reforms have a chance to make it through the Senate. MatthewStieb spoke with experts from JHU_GVP about how these restrictions would affect the epidemic of gun violence in the United States
Photo: Patrick T. Fallon/AFP via Getty Images Calls for action on gun control in Congress have played out the same way for years: A massacre is followed by talks of reform , a failure to reach an agreement, and a return to the status quo until the horrible cycle resets. The reason is fairly straightforward. Unwilling to offend their base or lose the support of a radicalized gun lobby, Republicans have opposed measures they say would punish law-abiding gun owners while failing to stop criminals.
Red-flag laws. Extreme Risk Protection Orders, more commonly known as red-flag laws, have proven successful at stopping people in crisis from using a gun, including in acts of suicide. In the 19 states where they currently exist, red-flag laws allow either law enforcement or loved ones to file a request with a judge when they fear a person who legally owns a gun is going to harm themselves or others.
Mental-health funding in schools. Although they’re not as directly effective as limiting access to firearms, mental-health programs can decrease gun violence. Johns Hopkins professor Daniel Webster, who studies policies to reduce gun violence, told ABC, “Those public health approaches can go a long way in preventing these horrible tragedies.”
To stop teenagers from mass-shooting sprees, experts suggest a long-term process for engaging with a young person who has shown threats of violence. Frank Straub, the director of the National Policing Institute’s Center for Targeted Violence Prevention, told CNN that after a school conducts a threat assessment to determine if a student is dangerous, there needs to be a follow-up program. “One of the things that we see as a shortfall is that assessment is a continuous process,” Straub said.
“There are federal data that suggest the occurrence of students bringing weapons to school has declined over time,” Johnson says. “But the severity of the outcome when there’s gun violence, with those metrics we’ve seen in the last seven years, the number of injuries and deaths related to gun shootings on campus has gone up. We can’t really argue that these policy previsions or security features are effective in lowering those rates of injury and death.
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