"Our responses tend to be ones in which we punish the offender and try to enable individuals to protect themselves. But we are reluctant to act collectively to make our communities and our country safer," he said.
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The National Opinion Research Center found in 2007 that 82% of those surveyed supported a ban on assault weapons, while CNN found that 79% of Americans favoured requiring gun owners to register their guns with local authorities.
Most gun control advocates point the finger at the National Rifle Association (NRA) for stymieing the political will in Congress to act.
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So, even after the horrifying events of Tucson, the sum of all these factors - frontier history, an individualistic society, a potent gun lobby and powerful rural states - most likely equals business as usual for US gun owners.
http://www.bbc.cdeo.uk/news/world-us-canada-12158148'cause as a nation, we're fuckin' crazy!!!
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