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Gun Control Reform Activism

billh58

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1. This is where ALEC

Reply to flamin lib (Original post)

Tue May 23, 2017, 03:23 PM

May 2017

steps into the breach and offers their "help" in writing gun legislation. This is the main reason that the red states have the most lax gun laws, and the highest gun violence rates.

Even something as simple as a federally mandated universal background check for ALL gun purchases and transfers would go a long way toward reducing the gun violence epidemic in this country.

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