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Originally Posted by CPHoya
**** it, I'll start. Guns. Here's a set of takes. Tell me why registration and similar measures would not meaningfully reduce gun deaths in America, or why some of this is unworkable, etc.
Basic Gun Control
Oct. '15:
Dec. '15:
Re: Appropriate Gun Rights Advocate Response to Mass Shootings and "Prayer Shaming"
Dec. '15:
Anyway, those are political takes. Interested in responses / arguments / STATS / etc.
I will make a SERIOUS POST here since you seem to be looking for DISCUSSION.
I hear stuff like
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American politicians -- who are of course NRA-funded and gun lobby funded
all the time. What are the HARD NUMBERS on the amount of influence here. I did a bit of research aka googling to find a website with a trustworthy layout and numbers and found this.
http://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/index.php
Claiming $3.24 billion total in lobbying for 2014.
Looking at the amount spent by industry, GUN RIGHTS aren't even in the top 20.
http://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/top...14&indexType=i
In fact, you have to go into the alphabetical list of industries and they are hidden in the "single-issue" bucket here
http://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/ind...id=Q&year=2014
where they data shows a mere $12 million spent.
The page for the NRA looks to confirm those numbers.
https://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/sum...&id=D000000082
We are talking roughly a third of a percent of the money. How does such a relative drop in the bucket get so much influence? Is there something completely wrong with those numbers?