Poll: Most Americans say these measures could stop mass shootings. The Senate isn't considering them

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With the U.S. Senate poised to defy all expectations and actually pass bipartisan gun-safety legislation in the wake of last month’s deadly mass shootings in Uvalde, Texas, and Buffalo, N.Y., a new Yahoo News/YouGov poll shows that clear majorities of Americans support each of the deal’s major provisions.

But an even greater number of Americans favor two reforms that Republican legislators refused to include in the framework they unveiled with their Democratic counterparts earlier this week: universal background checks for all gun sales (71%) and raising the national age to purchase semiautomatic weapons from 18 to 21 (68%).

At the same time, those are also the only two policies that more than half of Americans (55% and 53%, respectively) say might “help stop some mass shootings in the future” — raising the question of why the Senate isn’t going further.

The survey of 1,541 U.S. adults, which was conducted from June 10 to 13, found that the current bipartisan plan could prove very popular if it’s ultimately signed into law.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/poll-most-americans-say-these-2-gun-measures-could-stop-mass-shootings-the-senate-isnt-considering-them-134018327.html

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1. Bad headline.

It should be “republicans in the senate refuse to consider them.”

PS. Not blaming OP but the writer of the article.

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2. The headline is fine

As long as the rules in the Senate allow for Republicans to openly act in bad faith and as long as the two party system benefits Republicans then it is the Senate at fault.

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3. But for independent/swing voters that's prune to bothsiderism,

this headline gives the impression that both parties aren't considering it. They need to specify and place the blame where it belongs.

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4. And the system as a whole deserves some blame

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When I encounter "But we don't have the votes", that's not Republicans saying that.

Cowardice