The Department of Justice is considering rolling back a slate of firearm regulations currently in place ... why do we need them anyway? Over 40,000 deaths in 2025 by firearms in the United States should not be an excuse ... unless of course you lost a loved one through a gun-related death.
Thanks for your letter, Mr. Comolli, but what regulations are included in this slate of firearm regulations? Do we need them? Are they repetitive or have they been shown through recent court cases that these regulations infringe on Second Amendment rights and as such, should be repealed or rolled back? I did a quick search of “how many firearm deaths in 2025” that resulted in many articles. If I choose the first hit, there’s an article from The Trace (https://www.thetrace.org/2025/12/data-shooting-stats-gun-violence-america/) reporting that there were 40,000 people shot in 2025 but only 14,651 shooting deaths, and that’s with a 15 million increase in gun purchases. It appears you’ve confused the number of people being shot vs. the number of people dying from firearms, purposefully or by accident. Regardless, we also don’t know how many deaths or shootings are due to folks using guns they should not have been allowed to possess. And as such, regulations, whether they’re there or not, wouldn’t affect them.
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Thanks for your letter, Mr. Comolli, but what regulations are included in this slate of firearm regulations? Do we need them? Are they repetitive or have they been shown through recent court cases that these regulations infringe on Second Amendment rights and as such, should be repealed or rolled back? I did a quick search of “how many firearm deaths in 2025” that resulted in many articles. If I choose the first hit, there’s an article from The Trace (https://www.thetrace.org/2025/12/data-shooting-stats-gun-violence-america/) reporting that there were 40,000 people shot in 2025 but only 14,651 shooting deaths, and that’s with a 15 million increase in gun purchases. It appears you’ve confused the number of people being shot vs. the number of people dying from firearms, purposefully or by accident. Regardless, we also don’t know how many deaths or shootings are due to folks using guns they should not have been allowed to possess. And as such, regulations, whether they’re there or not, wouldn’t affect them.
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