Majority of Americans want increased gun restrictions (it wasn't a ban). In any case, there's 1.75 years left for the Republicans to shoot themselves in the foot over and over again, and they will.
Not really. If the majority of Americans wanted increased gun restrictions, those senators wouldn't have voted against the bill, especially the moderate Republicans and the dissenting Democrats. Most of the "90% of Americans support this!" nonsense is from polls that ask if Americans believe in background checks, something that already exists. Going by the polls, even in the states where they do support some form of increased gun restriction, they didn't support the bill in question (see: the polls coming out of New Hampshire)
That's bullshit, plain and simple. This was the
exact wording of the survey question:
Q: Would you support or oppose a law requiring background checks on people buying guns at gun shows?
And funnily enough, it's the
exact same thing the bill tried to implement. If someone is telling you otherwise about the details of the survey, or the details of the bill, they're blatantly lying to you and taking you for a fool.
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Every article I've read on the matter says the main part of the recently-defeated bill is mostly about
expanding background checks (reuters) - because there are currently no background checks if you buy guns online or at gun shows.
Here's New York Times saying basically the same thing about the recently-defeated bill. And it's not nonsense that 90% of respondents supported it - the
actual survey question (washington post) was whether Americans support expanding background checks to gun shows - the
very same thing the bill was about. No "gun ban", no shifting the goalposts with false questions, just asking the same question as what the bill was promoting.