Gun control in the US

"Joe Biden has renewed a call for Congress to ban assault rifles, including the model that was used in the failed assassination attempt on Donald Trump." -BBC

Honestly, not the best time, the Right is just going to spin this as further proof that Biden/deep state tried to assassinate Trump and now he wants to disarm Trump's loyal "soldiers".

Firearm deaths of children and teenagers rose significantly in states that enacted more permissive gun laws after the Supreme Court in 2010 limited local governments' ability to restrict gun ownership, a new study has found.

In states that maintained stricter laws, firearm deaths were stable after the ruling, the researchers reported, and in some, they even declined.

Dr. Jeremy Faust, an emergency room doctor at Massachusetts General Brigham Hospital in Boston, who was the study's lead author, said he was dismayed to find that most of the children's deaths were homicides and suicides. "It's surprising how few of these are accidents," Dr. Faust said.

But in the nine states with the strictest gun laws, youth firearm deaths did not increase. In four: California, Maryland, New York, and Rhode Island; they dropped significantly.

Zero surprise.

Which governor said the quiet part out loud, that if people want the more relaxed gun laws we have to pay with it with children's lives?

I believe that is my governor, Pritzker.

It was definitely a Republican, because not long after he said it, there was another school shooting in his state, some kids were murdered and he tried to walk back the comments.