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applegrove

(118,589 posts)
Thu Oct 19, 2017, 08:13 PM Oct 2017

Two-Thirds Of Voters Demand Tougher Gun Laws After GOP Pretends Vegas Shooting Never Happened

By Sean Colarossi at Politicus USA

http://www.politicususa.com/2017/10/19/two-thirds-voters-demand-tougher-gun-laws-gop-pretends-vegas-shooting-happened.html

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It’s been nearly three weeks since a mass shooting in Las Vegas took the lives of 58 people and injured hundreds more, and even though Republicans have stopped talking about the tragedy, nearly two-thirds of the country is demanding Congress pass tougher firearm laws.

According to a Marist poll released on Thursday, 64 percent of adults think gun laws should be tougher in the United States – even gun owners.

More of the poll’s findings on the question of firearm regulations:

64% of Americans — including a plurality of gun owners, 47%, and a majority, 51%, of those who live in a household with a gun — think laws covering the sale of firearms should be stricter. An additional 27% think they should be kept as they are now. Only 7% believe they should be eased. Again, there has been little change on this question since 2013.

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Two-Thirds Of Voters Demand Tougher Gun Laws After GOP Pretends Vegas Shooting Never Happened (Original Post) applegrove Oct 2017 OP
Scalise sounds like he would actually sort of enjoy being shot again. elehhhhna Oct 2017 #1
Folks have given up the debate Blue_Tires Oct 2017 #2
Same as Orlando. Sandy Hook. San Bernardino. Any other mass shooting. Initech Oct 2017 #3
Maybe bump stocks are a wedge issue that will favor democrats? applegrove Oct 2017 #4

Blue_Tires

(55,445 posts)
2. Folks have given up the debate
Thu Oct 19, 2017, 08:35 PM
Oct 2017

and nobody in Washington wants to challenge the NRA and risk being shot by a 2A "patriot" like Gabby Giffords...

Initech

(100,056 posts)
3. Same as Orlando. Sandy Hook. San Bernardino. Any other mass shooting.
Thu Oct 19, 2017, 08:42 PM
Oct 2017

We hear the same old bullshit. The Christian right tells the victims to go fuck themselves. The GOP and NRA pretend like it didn't happen. The representatives on the NRAs payroll will convince the populace that whatever insane attachment used to carry it out will not be banned because reasons. Nothing gets done, and the gun industry gets a big fat pay day because paranoid gun nuts go buy assault rifles in droves. So it's all good until the next mass shooting. The very definition of insanity,

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