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Regardless if you're pro-gun or anti-gun...corporate environments shouldn't be associated with weapons anymore than be associated with abortion beliefs.
That's honesty not that much. Obviously all that money can't go into lobbying, some of it has to go into operating costs like salaries.
Michael Bloomberg, a staunch anti-gun donor who set up his own anti-gun non-profit, is worth $52.1 billion on his own.
The problem isn't the NRA, its the constituents of Senators and Governors who don't support gun control. The left needs to stop playing up the NRA boogeyman and confront the fact that their policy proposals are legitimately unpopular among many Americans.
To the gunlovers the govt. becomes automatically tyrannical when a Dem. is president, even when nothing changes in reality, see gunsales during Obamas terms.This is the part I never understood. These weapons are needed to kill police and soldiers when the govt becomes tyrannical. Who decides that when that is?
This comparison isn't accurate.The NRA is the new Tobacco lobby.
Homemade Firearms have already been a hobby to some.Also 3 D printing is going to be a while mother set of issues.
"Just a little more regulation"The NRA is the new Tobacco lobby.
The problem is nobody wants to compromise on guns. I don’t want them banned just a little more regulation, but when I mention regulation you get labeled as a gun banner.
Just like Fakes News is great for Trump because any true negative articles he can label fake, any gun regulation can be spinners as “they want to takes our guns” 300 million guns in the US ain’t nobody taking them because that is impossible.
Also 3 D printing is going to be a while mother set of issues.
The NRA members delusionally believe that their personal guns will allow them to resist a "Tyrannical Govt." The ironic part is that NRA members are die hard supporters of the agents of the supposedly tyrannical Govt.(Law enforcement and the Military)
how many of these stories get the same amount of national attention
agreed and just one or two more sensible guns laws would stop this guy from robbing people with a sawed off shotgunThat dude was shot multiple times yet still managed to rip the gun out of the woman's hands and pistol whip her.
This is why you empty your clip into a perp.
The electorate as a whole is one thing but we don't put these issues up to a referendum. I'm talking about the constituents of Republicans specifically. Sure many people support gun control but many of them vote in Dems who push for it while those who don't vote, or those for whom its not a deciding vote and prioritize other conservative issues, vote in Republicans who resist it. Besides, support for gun control fluctuates a lot depending on whether or not one of these shootings occurs.Polling certainly disagrees with this sentiment - And yet nothing is done.
Many of the proposals currently circulating among lawmakers received majority support in the poll, although President Donald Trump's pitch to arm more teachers garnered lukewarm backing.
Among those: 87% support increased funding for mental health screenings; 75% support strengthening background checks on gun buyers; 56% support a ban on bump stocks; and 53% support a nationwide ban on the AR-15. The proposal to arm some teachers, offered by Trump and some Republicans, received 44% support.
https://www.cnn.com/2018/02/23/poli...aw-support-trump-parkland-shooting/index.html
American voters support stricter gun laws 66 - 31 percent, the highest level of support ever measured by the independent Quinnipiac University National Poll, with 50 - 44 percent support among gun owners and 62 - 35 percent support from white voters with no college degree and 58 - 38 percent support among white men.
Today's result is up from a negative 47 - 50 percent measure of support in a December 23, 2015, survey by the independent Quinnipiac (KWIN-uh-pe-ack) University Poll.
Support for universal background checks is itself almost universal, 97 - 2 percent, including 97 - 3 percent among gun owners. Support for gun control on other questions is at its highest level since the Quinnipiac University Poll began focusing on this issue in the wake of the Sandy Hook massacre:
https://poll.qu.edu/national/release-detail?ReleaseID=2521
- 67 - 29 percent for a nationwide ban on the sale of assault weapons;
- 83 - 14 percent for a mandatory waiting period for all gun purchases. It is too easy to buy a gun in the U.S. today, American voters say 67 - 3 percent. If more people carried guns, the U.S. would be less safe, voters say 59 - 33 percent. Congress needs to do more to reduce gun violence, voters say 75 - 17 percent.
Maybe more regulations are in order too. I mean, if they would just ban vises and saws you couldn't cut the barrel off of a shotgun.agreed and just one or two more sensible guns laws would stop this guy from robbing people with a sawed off shotgun
when you can buy these:When did the NRA say they were pro mass shooting?
Dumb. This is about equal to boycotting cars when everyone was driving cars into crowds last year.
Dumb.
When did the NRA say they were pro mass shooting?
Some people accuse the Catholic church of being "pro AIDS" because they preach against the use of condoms.
Technically, no. Practically, yes.
Same with the NRA and mass shootings.
This is true of Democrats as well. The GOP, with NRA support, offered a compromise on the issue of "no fly, no buy" in the aftermath of the Orlando shootings and Dems rejected it.The problem is nobody wants to compromise on guns.
when you can buy these:at NRA sponsored events....
/got nuthin'