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Old 06-13-2015, 08:51 PM   #55 (permalink)
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Point being that even in the immediate wake of that horrendous event the country couldn't collectively get behind perfectly common sense gun legislation. I remember how the numbers went in the weeks following. Immediately after a large percentage were for universal checks and the politicians jumped on board. Then with each passing week the numbers quickly plummeted and the politos quickly started backing away.
You're taking something that directly affected about twenty people in a nation of 300 million, and saying we should enact national policy because of it. I'm all for universal checks and all that good business, but I don't base my stance on gun control around isolated incidents.
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