If instead of Gabby Giffords...

[Skoods]

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

I often wonder this.

[unblock]

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

[justhanginon]

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

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]

2. No

[mainstreetonce]

3. No

Guns before people

[JI7]

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

[kydo]

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

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]

7. No. See: Reagan and Brady

[Princess Turandot]

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

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.