Mixed Reactions to Senate Gun Vote
The key Senate vote that halted gun control legislation last week is drawing a mixed reaction from the American public: 47% express negative feelings about the vote while 39% have a positive reaction to the Senate’s rejection of gun control legislation that included background checks on gun purchases. — Pew Research Center
This data shoots down the claim that 90% of the people were in favor of Universal Background Checks. What the Pew Research data indicates is that, during the run up to the vote, people became educated to the fact that the proposed legislation would do nothing to prevent the kind of tragedy that occurred in Newtown, CT. And, they also became educated to the fact that we already have a background check law in place; one that suffers from lack of proper administration and enforcement.
The battle continues however.
While President Obama and U.S. Senate Democrats were handed a setback in advancing their gun-control agenda on Capitol Hill, as we reported last week, that agenda remains alive as its proponents seek a different way forward. Gun-control organizations, including New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg's Mayors Against Illegal Guns, this week began running radio ads to put home-state voter pressure on senators who were instrumental in turning back the first effort to pass more restrictive federal legislation. NSSF has responded with our own radio ads running in six states to thank these senators for their crucial support of sportsmen and our Second Amendment liberties. Here is an example of one of those ads. — National Shooting Sports Foundation
Let's hope that the Senators who voted against the proposed bill remain more concerned with their constituents desire than with Bloomberg's agenda.
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