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Skoods

(341 posts) Fri Sep 16, 2016, 09:46 PM Sep 2016

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If instead of Gabby Giffords...

It were a republican congressman that was shot, would the GOP have enacted stricter gun laws?

I often wonder this.

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If instead of Gabby Giffords... (Original Post) Skoods Sep 2016 OP

Don't be silly! They'd just hit the nra up for more money. unblock Sep 2016 #1

I agree. It would just be another show me the money moment. justhanginon Sep 2016 #4

No orpupilofnature57 Sep 2016 #2

No mainstreetonce Sep 2016 #3

they would have blamed Obama and other dems for it JI7 Sep 2016 #5

Yeah, well Brady and Reagan were shot and look how the GOp clapped down on guns. kydo Sep 2016 #6

No. See: Reagan and Brady Hekate Sep 2016 #7

Nah. The Brady Bill was first proposed in 1987. The NRA was able to beat it back then... Princess Turandot Sep 2016 #8

unblock

(52,209 posts)

1. Don't be silly! They'd just hit the nra up for more money.

Reply to Skoods (Original post)

Fri Sep 16, 2016, 09:48 PM

Sep 2016

justhanginon

(3,290 posts)

4. I agree. It would just be another show me the money moment.

Reply to unblock (Reply #1)

Fri Sep 16, 2016, 09:53 PM

Sep 2016

That is what they live for and the NRA is happy to accomadate. As always, innocent lives be damned on the altar of greed.

orpupilofnature57

(15,472 posts)

2. No

Reply to Skoods (Original post)

Fri Sep 16, 2016, 09:49 PM

Sep 2016

mainstreetonce

(4,178 posts)

3. No

Reply to Skoods (Original post)

Fri Sep 16, 2016, 09:49 PM

Sep 2016

Guns before people

JI7

(89,249 posts)

5. they would have blamed Obama and other dems for it

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Fri Sep 16, 2016, 09:54 PM

Sep 2016

kydo

(2,679 posts)

6. Yeah, well Brady and Reagan were shot and look how the GOp clapped down on guns.

Reply to Skoods (Original post)

Fri Sep 16, 2016, 09:55 PM

Sep 2016

Not. Kids get slaughtered and many in the GOP deny it even happened.

The only thing that will effect GOP's gun love is to get rid of them. And I mean rid the Congress of the GOP. That would be the biggest step forward we could do and not just for the gun issue but for the country as a whole.

Hekate

(90,674 posts)

7. No. See: Reagan and Brady

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Fri Sep 16, 2016, 10:09 PM

Sep 2016

Princess Turandot

(4,787 posts)

8. Nah. The Brady Bill was first proposed in 1987. The NRA was able to beat it back then...

Reply to Skoods (Original post)

Fri Sep 16, 2016, 10:10 PM

Sep 2016

It was the shooting of Reagan and Brady et al that motivated its proposal. If the shooting of the Republican's effective god didn't do it for them, nothing else will.

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