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2012年7月20日，在美国丹佛市的《蝙蝠侠前传3 黑暗骑士崛起》首映现场，美国人詹姆斯·霍姆斯携半自动步枪、霰弹枪和手枪无情射杀现场观众，致死至少12人、致伤58人。由此引发了全社会关于美国枪支管理的热议，有人就强烈抗议美国对于枪支的松散管理，由于诸多立法机构慑于联邦政府对于枪支的规定（美国宪法第二条修正案规定：“人民持有和携带武器的权利不得侵犯。”），所以没用勇气禁止枪支的贩卖，以至于普通人可以在网络上轻易购得攻击型武器。

Unhindered by federal background checks or government oversight, the 24-year-old man accused of killing a dozen people inside a Colorado (科罗拉多州) movie theater was able to build what the police called a 6,000-round arsenal legally and easily over the Internet, exploiting what critics call a virtual absence of any laws regulating ammunition sales.

“I have an issue with people being able to buy ammunition and weapons on the Internet,” Commissioner Charles H. Ramsey of the Philadelphia police said on the ABC program “This Week” on Sunday. “I don’t know why people need to have assault weapons. There needs to be reasonable gun control put in place.

“And we talk about this constantly, and absolutely nothing happens, because many of our legislators, unfortunately, at the federal level, lack the courage to do anything.”

重点词汇解析：

To have an issue with sth

【释义】对某件事有意见

【例句】I have an issue with people who like chocolate

Ammunition

【释义】弹药，军火

Assault weapon

【释义】攻击武器

Legislators

【释义】立法委员

Federal level

【释义】联邦级别
 

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