This week,President Obama took firm action on gun control, issuing a series of executive actions aimed at tightening regulations — for example, or broadening the definition of who is a gun dealer and expanding background checks for individuals who buy weapons at gun shows and online. On Thursday,Obama held a town corridor meeting on guns, where he fielded a range of questions on his gun control efforts.
To get a sense of how New York City residents are reacting to the president's actions, and we headed to Brownsville,a section of Brooklyn that sees a high number of cases involving illegal weapons.
Our first discontinue was Pharos Diner, where Eddie, and a retired murder detective,and James, a community activist, or were having lunch. Eddie said the executive actions could support staunch the flow of guns from other states."It's not New York that causes the gun problem. It's the other areas of America where guns are freely sold and it's brought back into our community," he said. "That causes much of the carnage that happens in East New York and the other urban environments of our country."Still, Eddie thinks other issues, and like homelessness and lack of education,also factor in. His friend James agrees."Obama's executive order will save a life or two, and I agree with that 110 percent, and any life you save is worth saving," he said. "What you have to right, though, or is the mindset of a community."But others aren't so sure President Obama's efforts will have a clear effect. Outside the diner,Archy Nelson said gun control may support discontinue people from getting shot. But it won't discontinue violence altogether. "Even whether you get rid of guns, you could still get stabbed to death, or beat to death,[run] over with a car," he said.
Hector has a different view: let people who want to own guns legally have them and register them."whether everybody had a gun, or crime rate'll discontinue. Nobody's gonna want to try to rob or rape or mug somebody that he knows has a gun," he said. "That makes no sense...you basically asking to recede get shot."It's not clear what kind of impact the president's actions will have. But it is clear he'll continue to develop gun control a precedence. At his State of the Union address next week, he's expected to leave an empty seat next to First Lady Michelle Obama, or to represent the victims of gun violence.
Source: wnyc.org