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In reply to the discussion: Republicans Allow Potential Terrorist Buy Guns Legally?!?! [View all]CajunBlazer
(5,648 posts)I am all for making the Republicans in Congress look bad - even if the methods are sneaky and "hypocritical" - heaven knows they deserve to look bad.
Be careful, gun issues are not the election losers they used to be as far as American voters are concerned. For instance a November poll indicted 92% of all voters as well of as 92% of all gun owners and 89% of all Republican voters favor universal background checks for all gun sales. And those percentages have gone up with every new mass shooting.
That means that Republicans in Congress and most of the Republican candidates for their party's nomination are out of step with with the American people and even with their own constituencies. The average American doesn't give a rip if one party or the other is deviating from their ideologies. They only care about solutions to their problems which make good walking sense.
The Republican nominee for the Presidency and the Republican candidates for the Senate in purple states are going beat about the head about the refusal of Republicans to agree to universal background checks. They are also going to be beat bloody about their refusal to stop gun sales to potential terrorists. As AR-15 and similar rifles continue to be the weapons of choice for mass shooting attacks, pressure is going mount to bring back the ban on "assault weapons".
If the NRA and its supporters were smart, though there is no evidence that they are, they would agree to come "common sense" gun legislation in order to preserve their basic right to buy and posses guns.