House Dems Spell Out Gun Control Demands

Representative Mike Honda and Representative Beto O'Rourke offer policy ideas that they believe would decrease the instances of military assault weapon massacres, and other gun violence in America. 1) End the ban on studies about gun violence imposed on the Center for Disease Control. 2) End the "gun show loophole" and require universal background checks for gun purchases 3) "No fly, no buy" — meaning that those who are suspected of terrorism and thus placed on a "no fly" list should not be allowed to buy weapons of war inside U.S. borders 4) Renew the ban on military assault weapons, which expired in 2004. Since 2004, mass shootings in the United States include:

June 12, 2016. Omar Mateen killed 49 people and injured 53 at a gay nightclub in Orlando, FL

December 2, 2015, Syed Rizwan Farook and Tashfeen Malik shot 14 people to death and seriously injured 22 at the Inland Regional Center in a terror attack in San Bernardino, California.

June 17, 2015 White supremacist Dylann Roof assassinated African American state senator Clementa Pinkney and 8 of his parishioners during bible study in a Charleston, SC church

December 11, 2012. On Tuesday, 22-year-old Jacob Tyler Roberts killed 2 people and himself with a stolen rifle in Clackamas Town Center, Oregon. His motive is unknown.

September 27, 2012. Five were shot to death by 36-year-old Andrew Engeldinger at Accent Signage Systems in Minneapolis, MN. Three others were wounded.

August 5, 2012. Six Sikh temple members were killed when 40-year-old US Army veteran Wade Michael Page opened fire in a gurdwara in Oak Creek, Wisconsin.

July 20, 2012. James Holmes killed 12 people and wounded 58 at a movie theater in Aurora, CO

May 29, 2012. Ian Stawicki opened fire on Cafe Racer Espresso in

Seattle, WA, killing 5.

April 6, 2012. Jake England, 19, and Alvin Watts, 32, shot 5 black men in Tulsa, Oklahoma, in racially motivated shooting spree. Three died.

April 2, 2012. A former student, 43-year-old One L. Goh killed 7 people at Oikos University, a Korean Christian college in Oakland, CA.

February 27, 2012. Three students were killed by Thomas “TJ” Lane, another student, in a rampage at Chardon High School in Chardon, OH.

October 14, 2011. Scott Evans Dekraai shot 8 people at Salon Meritage hair salon in Seal Beach, CA.

September 6, 2011. Eduardo Sencion, 32, entered an IHOP restaurant in Carson City, NV and killed 5 people.

January 8, 2011. Former Rep. Gabby Giffords (D-AZ) was shot in the head when 22-year-old Jared Loughner opened fire in Tucson, AZ. Six people died, including Arizona District Court Chief Judge John Roll, one of Giffords’ staffers, and a 9-year-old girl. 19 total were shot. Loughner has been sentenced to seven life terms plus 140 years, without parole.

August 3, 2010. Omar S. Thornton, 34, gunned down Hartford Beer Distributor in Manchester, CT after getting caught stealing beer. Nine were killed, including Thornton, and two were injured.

November 5, 2009. Forty-three people were shot by Army psychiatrist Nidal Malik Hasan at the Fort Hood army base in Texas. Hasan reportedly yelled “Allahu Akbar!” before opening fire, killing 13 and wounding 29 others.

April 3, 2009. Jiverly Wong, 41, opened fire at an immigration center in Binghamton, New York before committing suicide. He killed 13 people and wounded 4.

March 29, 2009. Eight people died in a shooting at the Pinelake Health and Rehab nursing home in Carthage, NC. The gunman, 45-year-old Robert Stewart, was targeting his estranged wife who worked at the home and survived. Stewart was sentenced to life in prison.

February 14, 2008. Steven Kazmierczak, 27, opened fire in a lecture hall at Northern Illinois University, killing 6 and wounding 21. The gunman shot and killed himself before police arrived. It was the fifth-deadliest university shooting in US history.

February 7, 2008. Charles Lee Thornton killed 6 people in a shooting spree at the City Hall in Kirkwood, MO

December 5, 2007. A 19-year-old boy, Robert Hawkins, shot up a department store in the Westroads Mall in Omaha, NE killing 9.

April 16, 2007. Seung-Hui Choi killed 32 people at Virginia Tech University.

February 12, 2007. In Salt Lake City’s Trolley Square Mall, 5 people were shot to death and 4 others were wounded by Sulejman Talović.

October 2, 2006. Charles Carl Roberts separated the boys from the girls in an Amish schoolhouse in Lancaster, PA, binding and shooting the girls. 5 young girls died, while 6 were injured.

March 25, 2006. 7 died and 2 were injured by 28-year-old Kyle Aaron Huff in a shooting spree through Capitol Hill in Seattle, WA.

March 21, 2005. Jeffrey Weise killed his grandfather and his grandfather’s girlfriend before opening fire on Red Lake Senior High School, killing 9 people on campus and injuring 5.

March 12, 2005. A church meeting in Brookfield, WI. Terry Michael Ratzmann killed himself after executing the pastor, the pastor’s 16-year-old son, and 7 others. Four were wounded.