Republicans block research on gun violence, because knowledge might lead to action
A well funded NRA initiative to block needed research..The GOP is in the pocket of the NRA. How many more mass shootings will it take to convince voters?
Yes, I've seen it reported on several news stations. President Obama also mentioned it in his address yesterday about the massacre in Oregon. NaziCons hate factual information that doesn't support their agenda.
Oh I forgot to mention, the last President I voted for was Obama (and I still kick myself for doing so, but McLame would have been worse). Any other goofy stereotypes you'd like to vomit in place of facts and reason there, toots?
Bottom line, the CDC is not the agency to be doing research into the root causes of gun violence. As I mentioned earlier, it's like calling a doctor to find out what is wrong with your tractor. Quit letting your partisan blinders keep you from using what little common sense you might have.
Ninety percent (90%) of Americans want Universal Background Checks - so why can't we get that done?
Because 90% of Americans don't want them, obviously. Just because you can't pry yourself from dated polls and this wacky notion that the NRA is some 800lb gorilla that forces our Congress to do their bidding doesn't make you right.
Private citizens have been able to buy, sell and trade their firearms without government permission or background checks for as long as this country has existed....indeed in the decades since the GCA 0f 1968 and all the wacky gun laws inbetween...including background checks...the problem has not been solved, according to ya'll it has gotten worse. Combine that with the FACT that neither the existing background checks nor the proposed "universal" checks would have stopped any of the recent mass shooters...or the majority of gun crime (latest shooting excepted, we don't have all the facts yet), what makes you think they will work any better than all the existing failed gun laws? Why are you so willing to trade our essential liberties for some false sense of temporary security?
Are you a registered idiot or are you just freelancing? I left the NRA after radicals hijacked it in 1977.
What does your problem with the NRA have to do with anything that I wrote? I think the idiot is in your mirror, dear. If you can't address or refute what I have written, you might be happier just playing with your vibrator.