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Mike Pence Pushes Guns as Indiana Bleeds

One question Donald Trump’s running mate should get at Tuesday night’s vice presidential debate: Why has he made buying guns in his state easier when Indianapolis’s murder rate tops Chicago’s?
10.04.16
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In both cities, around 80 percent of the homicides involved firearms. Chicago police note that some 20 percent of the guns recovered in crime scenes there were purchased in Indiana, where access has gone from easy to even easier [ http://www.thedailybeast.com/content/dailybeast/articles/2015/12/22/where-mass-murderers-weapons-of-choice-are-sold-with-a-smile.html ].
Pence’s most notable actions as governor with regard to firearms include arranging for the National Rifle Association to train the Indiana National Guard in carrying concealed weapons. Pence also signed laws that legalized sawed-off shotguns, permitted people to keep guns in vehicles in school parking lots, and retroactively barred a 1999 suit by the city of Gary against gun manufacturers.
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Meanwhile, one person who underestimated the dangers of Indianapolis was the 17-year-old who arranged to sell a cellphone via the online site OfferUp early Sunday morning. He took the precaution of arranging to conduct the transaction in a parking lot directly adjoining the back of the Indianapolis Police Department’s Southeast District headquarters. He also brought along an older man.
But neither the sidekick nor the proximity of the police station prevented the two supposed buyers from pulling a gun. The 17-year-old tried to run and was shot. He was rushed to the hospital and at last report the medical staff had managed to keep his name from joining the list of homicide victims.
Maybe somebody at Tuesday’s debate will ask Pence how even a parking lot behind a police station is not safe in the town where he now officially resides.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/10/04/mike-pence-pushes-guns-as-indiana-bleeds.html