Convicted Animal Abusers & Guns

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A current petition is floating around looking for signatures to tell the United States congress to introduce a law that would prevent anyone charged with animal abuse from obtaining a firearm. As the article suggests, nearly 50% of people involved in school shootings between 1988 and 2002 had previously been convicted of animal abuse. These statistics claim to prove that anyone who is capable of committing malicious animal abuse would also be able to inflict similar abuses / murder upon humans without thinking twice.

There have been many studies done over several years that have shown a direct link between animal abuse and eventual crimes against humans. What starts out as a twisted interest in abusing small animals like cats, dogs, rabbits etc., gradually develops into a desire to inflict similar pain on humans. There is definitely a connection between these abuses even at 50%, that's an alarmingly high amount of development into shootings of humans. 

The United States has repeatedly failed to address their gun laws despite having the most mass shootings in all of the Western countries. Unfortunately, gun lobbyists refuse to acknowledge that gun laws need to be addressed and in doing so, allow more shootings to occur. If they are unwilling to address their gun laws overall, it seems like this is a great place to start. As I said, anyone who has the desire to hurt animals in this manner has no regard for life and what makes anyone think that they won't develop these urges and turn their attention on children, the elderly, or just people in general. The urge to cause physical pain or death to animal is an obvious sign that something is not quite right with this individual and if they can then go and acquire weapons legally, are they not essentially being permitted to commit these crimes?

It was widely reported that the FBI was going to be investigating animal cruelty cases for their link to eventual attacks on humans. It couldn't be any more obvious that there is a connection and the United States Congress needs to acknowledge this connection and take action. If they can even prevent 50% of school shootings by simply limiting convicted criminals from acquiring guns, why wouldn't they? Having the right to own a gun for protection is one thing despite my not really agreeing with guns whatsoever, but allowing someone who has been convicted of torturing an animal to acquire a gun, shame on you guys.

If you follow the link at the top of the page to the story from World Animal News, you can sign the petition. As I said, the U.S. is very stubborn about their guns but we have to start somewhere and this seems like the logical place to make a commitment to reducing gun violence.

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