Another form of gun control came back in 1929 due to the infamous “St. Valentine’s Day Massacre” that folks have forgotten about.
The Mob was running wild across the country spraying bullets everywhere with those Tommy Guns with the drum magazines.
Legislation was put out to curb it.
Like Reagan that I posted earlier, it’s been done before and worked.
All this talk that nothing can’t be done is all BS. We need politicians who have the Will and Motivation to do it, not just sitting there mainly concerned about keeping their job, cuz they are addicted to the power and privileges of the office they hold.
How the St. Valentine’s Day Massacre Changed Gun Laws
The scene was both sickeningly familiar and shockingly new — seven bodies, riddled with bullets, sprawled on the floor of a garage on Chicago’s North Side.
As Americans today grow increasingly numb to persistent mass shootings, such a crime now might not even make the front pages. But on Feb. 14, 1929, Chicagoans were appalled enough to give it an enduring name — “the St. Valentine’s Day Massacre” — and it remains a powerful example of how to check gun violence with proactive reform.
The scene was both sickeningly familiar and shockingly new — seven bodies, riddled with bullets, sprawled on the floor of a garage on Chicago’s North Side. As Americans today grow increasingly numb to persistent mass shootings, such a crime now might not even make the front pages.
But on Feb. 14, 1929, Chicagoans were appalled enough to give it an enduring name — “the St. Valentine’s Day Massacre” — and it remains a powerful example of how to check gun violence with proactive reform.
Eighty-nine years later, will the public finally demand similar action?
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