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Tuesday, June 7th, 2022

Almost Half of Republicans Think ‘We Have to Accept’ Mass Shootings, Poll Shows

Author:     Cameron Joseph
Source:     Vice News
Publication Date:     June 6, 2022 | 9:03am
 Link: Almost Half of Republicans Think ‘We Have to Accept’ Mass Shootings, Poll Shows
Stephan:   For the gun obsessives -- 44 percent of Republicans -- the answer to the massacres is not fewer but more guns. They actually fantasize a world in which everyone in America carries weapons as a matter of course. As for the murders, well, that's what freedom is like, get used to it. And these people are all going to vote in November, and they are all going to vote for Republicans. People like Boebert, Green, and Gaetz are in office only because the gun obsessives voted for them.
Wooden crosses with the names of the victims left by citizens at
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Nearly half of Republicans think that mass shootings are “unfortunately something we have to accept as part of free society,” according to a new CBS News poll conducted by YouGov.

That fatalistic sentiment from 44 percent of Republicans—and the view that changes to gun laws threaten overall freedom—show why it’s so hard to pass significant new gun laws through Congress in spite of overwhelming public support for many measures. 

But nearly three-quarters of Americans, including 56 percent of Republicans, say that mass shootings are “something we can prevent and stop if we really tried,” a sign that there’s broad-based appetite for gun law reform.

The poll shows that large majorities of Americans support legislation to address gun violence. 

More than four-fifths of Americans want to require background checks on all potential gun buyers. Almost three-quarters support passage of a federal “red flag” law that would allow law courts to order the temporary removal of […]

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1 Comment

  1. Rev. Dean on Tuesday, June 7, 2022 at 3:52 pm

    We do not have to accept MASS SHOOTINGS in this country. We need new laws to PREVENT such things from happening. There is no doubt that the America I grew up in, would never allow such things to happen without mass uprisings protesting such things from happening meaning new laws against the guns which shoot clip-loads of bullets. If Republicans think that mass shootings are OK, I cannot imagine anyone voting for a Republican.