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Reprinted with permission from AlterNet.
After every mass shooting, a portion of this country insists the real problem is that there arent enough guns. The group that pushes this absurd lie includes Republican politicians, many of whom fear that admitting otherwise would drive away NRA donor funds. Theres been a lot of recent discussion about how GOP legislators do nothing in response to gun massacres, but a 2016 Harvard Business School study proves thats not quite true. In states with overwhelmingly Republican legislative bodies, after mass shootings, the number of laws passed to loosen gun restrictions [increases] by 75 percent. Despite being counterintuitive and demonstrably dangerous, more firepower is the GOPs go-to solution because something something dont tread on me.
Its a bad-faith proposition. A party that truly believes guns are the way out of this thing, and that an even more heavily armed populace will ensure American safety, would make different personal choices. In fact, we can gauge GOP disingenuousness on the gun issue just by noting all the places Republican politicians frequent where weapons are banned. Pointing out their hypocrisy has never helped to shame the GOP into decency, but its worth a review nonetheless.
Here are five places hypocritical Republicans ban guns in order to ensure their own personal safety.
http://www.nationalmemo.com/5-places-gop-hypocrites-ban-guns/
Eliot Rosewater
(31,106 posts)enough
(13,255 posts)former9thward
(31,943 posts)The Secret Service is not partisan and they control three of the five. The Capitol police are not partisan and they control one of the five. The author could have found some actual examples if they actually wanted to do a little work.
treestar
(82,383 posts)their points about gun free zones. They were claiming that such places attract shooters, since the shooter believes there are no good guys with guns in those places. If they really believed that, they'd refuse to be in a gun free zone or at least demand that the restriction be lifted.