{"id":309,"date":"2013-04-17T08:58:35","date_gmt":"2013-04-17T13:58:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.themodestproposal.com\/?p=309"},"modified":"2013-04-17T08:58:35","modified_gmt":"2013-04-17T13:58:35","slug":"fox-news-poll-majorities-support-new-gun-measures-fox-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.themodestproposal.com\/?p=309","title":{"rendered":"Fox News poll: Majorities support new gun measures | Fox News"},"content":{"rendered":"
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I just got off the phone with a staffer for Senator Cruz of Texas. \u00a0I was urging the Senator to not block the vote today on background checks on gun sales and expressed bewilderment that he would filibuster such a vote. \u00a0I told the guy that 80-90% of his constituents support background checks. \u00a0He gave a variety of answers, and I have included each with my response to him below:<\/p>\n

“There has been no poll on the bill”<\/span> – true, but there have been many polls on universal background checks, specifically at gun shows and online sales, which is what the Toomy-Manchin bill addresses.<\/p>\n

“What poll are you siting sir? Do you have a date”<\/span> – all of them dude. \u00a0all of them. \u00a0how about a Fox News poll that showed 80% of Republicans, even a majority of Tea Partiers support these policies (that shut him up fast):\u00a0Fox News poll: Majorities support new gun measures | Fox News<\/a>.<\/p>\n

“Even Biden said background checks wouldn’t have stopped the last school shooting” –<\/span> maybe so but with tens of thousands of gun deaths each year you’ve got to be crazy to think that stopping criminals from walking into gun shows and buying a gun no questions asked won’t reduce gun violence. \u00a0Plus, Al Q’aeda’s training manual specifically mentions our loose gun laws and gun shows as a way to easily buy weapons without scrutiny. \u00a0Why would anyone block a vote on such a bill?<\/p>\n

“The majority of people calling our office today are opposed to the bill<\/span>” – of course they are, because the NRA is telling them it’s a 2nd Amendment issue when it’s not. \u00a0If you’re not a criminal, you pass a background check, you buy a gun. \u00a0Do a poll in the neighborhood where those people are calling from and 80% of the Republicans there support this policy. \u00a0And that still doesn’t explain why you would\u00a0filibuster\u00a0vs. just voting against it.<\/p>\n

Bottom line: please call you Senator asap. \u00a0there are a lot more NRA people calling against than regular people calling in support. \u00a0Vote is at 4 PM. Please call right now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I just got off the phone with a staffer for Senator Cruz of Texas. \u00a0I was urging the Senator to not block the vote today on background checks on gun sales and expressed bewilderment that he would filibuster such a vote. \u00a0I told the guy that 80-90% of his constituents support background checks. \u00a0He gave a variety of answers, and I have included each with my response to him below: “There has been no poll on the bill” – true, but there have been many polls on universal background checks, specifically at gun shows and online sales, which is what \u2026 Continue reading this post → <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gun-reform"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.themodestproposal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.themodestproposal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.themodestproposal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.themodestproposal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.themodestproposal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=309"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.themodestproposal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.themodestproposal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.themodestproposal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.themodestproposal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}