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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsIf instead of Gabby Giffords...
It were a republican congressman that was shot, would the GOP have enacted stricter gun laws?
I often wonder this.
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If instead of Gabby Giffords... (Original Post)
Skoods
Sep 2016
OP
Nah. The Brady Bill was first proposed in 1987. The NRA was able to beat it back then...
Princess Turandot
Sep 2016
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unblock
(52,260 posts)1. Don't be silly! They'd just hit the nra up for more money.
justhanginon
(3,290 posts)4. I agree. It would just be another show me the money moment.
That is what they live for and the NRA is happy to accomadate. As always, innocent lives be damned on the altar of greed.
orpupilofnature57
(15,472 posts)2. No
mainstreetonce
(4,178 posts)3. No
Guns before people
JI7
(89,252 posts)5. they would have blamed Obama and other dems for it
kydo
(2,679 posts)6. Yeah, well Brady and Reagan were shot and look how the GOp clapped down on guns.
Not. Kids get slaughtered and many in the GOP deny it even happened.
The only thing that will effect GOP's gun love is to get rid of them. And I mean rid the Congress of the GOP. That would be the biggest step forward we could do and not just for the gun issue but for the country as a whole.
Hekate
(90,719 posts)7. No. See: Reagan and Brady
Princess Turandot
(4,787 posts)8. Nah. The Brady Bill was first proposed in 1987. The NRA was able to beat it back then...
It was the shooting of Reagan and Brady et al that motivated its proposal. If the shooting of the Republican's effective god didn't do it for them, nothing else will.