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Topic: Newtown’s Impact on Public Opinion |
Newtown’s Impact on Public Opinion
National Review Online, by Eliana Johnson
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Posted By:KarenJ1, 12/27/2012 3:06:42 PM
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| The atrocities in Newtown constituted a turning point in the Beltway debate on gun control, with Democrats now preparing to introduce – and President Obama vowing to pass – new legislation aimed at further restricting gun ownership. The tragedy in Connecticut seems to have had a similar effect on journalists, who have been even more outspoken in the wake of this tragedy than in other instances. (Snip) The most surprising finding comes in the last line of the story linked above: “The USA TODAY/Gallup poll found 54% have a favorable opinion of the NRA,
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Comments:
Once again Washington goes against the majority of Americans. So what´s new.
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
Salt5792, 12/27/2012 3:18:13 PM (No. 9086287)
Hopefully the House will ignore anything the Senate Dems do.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
ruready?, 12/27/2012 3:34:44 PM (No. 9086308)
This is a big deal. For the sake of future generations, the House should strongly rebuke the Senate if they allow a vote on gun control, but not on a budget.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
neanderthal, 12/27/2012 3:40:34 PM (No. 9086322)
Their goal, and they will achieve it (it´s just a matter of "when") is to rid the population of the guns that would be most useful in a confrontation with a tyrannical, aggressive, oppressive government. Such a government fears artillery in the hand of the population (they´ve outlawed that), bazookas and hand/shoulder fired rockets (they´ve got them), machine guns (they´ve got them),and automatic light arms (they´ve got them). Now they´re after semi-automatic long guns and hand guns and we´re "all up in arms" because they´re now taking away weapons that are practically useless against such a government. Good Grief! Talk about a frog getting boiled. We´re already dead.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
chumley, 12/27/2012 3:45:54 PM (No. 9086327)
No, they will not achieve it. Not as long as free people have the means and the will to resist. I dont mean a gaggle of people who are free only at the pleasure of government. I mean individuals.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
laotzu, 12/27/2012 4:05:49 PM (No. 9086351)
I guess when the public policy you are proposing fails to address the stated problem, your only option is to bypass reason and use human tragedy to advance your agenda. Can you imagine the outrage if conservatives acted this way?
It´s becoming apparent. The left is forcing a confrontation on some of the most fundamental constitutional issues since the Civil War.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
laotzu, 12/27/2012 4:08:17 PM (No. 9086357)
Why don´t they outlaw the known killer tobacco? Oh, that´s right, the government makes too much money off that to adopt a morally consistent position. Wonder if the gun makers will buy off the pols the same way as the big tobacco settlement of the ´90s.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Starlifter Nav, 12/27/2012 4:40:03 PM (No. 9086381)
You might take note of a group of semi-literate Middle Eastern Fanatics who have held off the military of the Wrold´s ´superpowers´ with some scrounged explosives and some parts from Kabul´s equivalent of Radio Shack.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
columba, 12/27/2012 5:11:30 PM (No. 9086413)
The corrected headline: Media Hype´s Impact on Public Opinion After Shooting in Newtown
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