Majority Believes Lawmakers Can Reduce Gun Violence
But are divided on what policy would work best
Americans overwhelmingly think there is something Washington can do to reduce gun violence, but pronounced splits on the specific legislative fix underscore the difficulty Congress would face passing a bill.
In the wake of the mass shooting at the Washington Navy Yard, 71 percent of respondents in the latest United Technologies/National JournalCongressional Connection Poll agreed that "there's something that can be done through public policies" that would help seriously reduce mass shootings.
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"Something"
How much you want to bet that those "somethings" are contradictory and mutually exclusive, separated by ideology.
Why democracy is stupid. I guess all the evidence from drugs isn't enough. Hey, if guns are outlawed no one would possibly think to use something else. If there were financial regulations no one would possibly find a way around. I put government believers in the religion category.