{"id":134905,"date":"2017-10-03T16:13:27","date_gmt":"2017-10-03T22:13:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/?p=134905"},"modified":"2017-10-03T19:14:04","modified_gmt":"2017-10-04T01:14:04","slug":"things-change-mass-shootings-gun-laws-get-loosened","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/10\/03\/things-change-mass-shootings-gun-laws-get-loosened.html","title":{"rendered":"Things DO change after mass shootings. Gun laws get loosened"},"content":{"rendered":"

In Republican-controlled states, laws explicitly making it easier to obtain or tote about firearms are more<\/i> common after a mass shooting has taken place. Reducing or eliminating waiting periods, expanding open or concealed carry, you name it, such laws are apparently easier<\/i> to get passed when a mass shooting occurs.<\/p>\n

Perhaps it’s because folk are scared by what’s happened and feel that MORE GUNS will make everyone safer. Perhaps it’s because folk find the discussion of gun restrictions that tries to start up after such incidents demands instead a counter-response.<\/p>\n

Remember that the next time pro-gun folk say, “No, it’s too soon to discuss gun control.” [1] They<\/i> won’t be sitting around and waiting.<\/p>\n

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[1] As the White House has said<\/a>\u00a0and others have satirized<\/a>.<\/p>\n


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\nAfter a Shooting, Gun Laws Are Loosened – The Atlantic<\/a><\/span>
\nThe most probable policy response to the atrocity in Las Vegas will be new laws allowing more guns to be carried into more places.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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In Republican-controlled states, laws explicitly making it easier to obtain or tote about firearms are more common after a mass shooting has taken place. Reducing or eliminating waiting periods, expanding open or concealed carry, you name it, such laws are apparently easier to get passed when a mass shooting occurs. Perhaps it’s because folk are … Continue reading “Things DO change after mass shootings. 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