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Gun Control Reform Activism

billh58

(6,647 posts)

1. According to the NRA and its supporters,

Reply to flamin lib (Original post)

Thu Feb 26, 2015, 11:32 AM

Feb 2015

everything is fine, no research into gun violence is necessary, and the USA is a role model to the rest of the world when it comes to "the right to keep and bear arms."

Professor Garen Wintemute

"But take Sandy Hook, Oak Creek, Aurora, Columbine, Virginia Tech, all of them together come to ninety-one dead. It’s awful. But we lose, on average, eighty-eight people every day to firearm violence in the United States, and we have more than 200 people every day injured seriously enough to go to the emergency department."

Nothing to see here folks, the NRA/ILA and ALEC (Koch Brothers) have everything under control, so just ignore the man behind the curtain.

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