Results: 10 Years After...Nothing Has Changed
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Ten years ago, on December 14, 2012, a lone gunman walked into Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut, and shot and killed 26 people, including 20 children. Thoughts and prayers went out, but even more to the point, calls for gun reform did. Ten years later, nothing has been done. On Monday, a Nashville elementary school was once again the tragic scene of yet another school shooting, with 3 children and 3 adults this time being gunned down. And once again, thoughts and prayers went out, and yet again, so are calls for gun reform. My question is, WHAT WILL IT TAKE FOR THE LAWMAKERS IN THE U.S. TO FINALLY DO SOMETHING?
I have no idea
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470 votes
Nothing will ever be done
18%
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380 votes
Guns don't kill, people do...
23%
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488 votes
Get politicians elected that will actually do something
28%
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589 votes
Nothing needs to be done
6%
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119 votes
Other (please specify)
3%
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54 votes
| Other Answers | Percentage | Votes |
| 0.81% | 17 | |
| As long as Congresspersons are rewarded by lobbyists and the NRA, nothing will change. Greed wins for these people. | 0.05% | 1 |
| There is no reason for a person to own a AR-15 assault rifle unless they are going to to assault . | 0.05% | 1 |
| don't need new laws when the current ones are not enforced. | 0.05% | 1 |
| people are crazy and they use guns to kill but if it wasn't a gun it would be knives, bombs or something else God help us all | 0.05% | 1 |
| Just like air marshals on airplanes, we need to stations armed guards at our schools. | 0.05% | 1 |
| Something (God forbid) bad to happen to their kids @ a school that a gun is involved. | 0.05% | 1 |
| Family needs to become more involved and report dangerous behaviour to the police to the guns can be confiscated. Red flag warnings! | 0.05% | 1 |
| It has to cost the people in power either their positions or lots of money for them to act along with a huge public outcry. | 0.05% | 1 |
| People simply caring for others more than they care for themselves | 0.05% | 1 |
| Get rid of Republicans. | 0.05% | 1 |
| Perhaps if the victim was one of their own family. | 0.05% | 1 |
| It was a staged event. Sad that those people were killed though. | 0.05% | 1 |
| The dissolution of the United States of America, either by internal strife or by a foreign power. It has outlived its worthiness. | 0.05% | 1 |
| more guns | 0.05% | 1 |
| politicians should stop fear and hate mongering | 0.05% | 1 |
| Children of these politicians would need to get shot and die at their schools for politicians to finally act on gun reform | 0.05% | 1 |
| . | 0.05% | 1 |
| All guns should be registered and there should be a thorough background check. People with criminal backgrounds or mental issues should not own guns. | 0.05% | 1 |
| Guns must be banned | 0.05% | 1 |
| The Republican party has to vanish. | 0.05% | 1 |
| Address the real problem--mental illness | 0.05% | 1 |
| when their own families get gunned down, we'll see gun reform. | 0.05% | 1 |
| NRA & its Republican ilk have too much power & money | 0.05% | 1 |
| When a law is passed (which won't happen) preventing legislators from voting on any legislation that affects someone/something that has made a sizeable contribution to them. | 0.05% | 1 |
| Don't care | 0.05% | 1 |
| Why the attack on Christians? Thoughts and prayers are all we have to give. We can't bring the victims back. We're giving a part of heart. If it's not enough, I'm sorry, but that doesn't give you the right to mock us or see us all as gun owners. | 0.05% | 1 |
| Revoking the Second Amendment? | 0.05% | 1 |
| As long as lobbyists are paying off politicians, NOTHING will ever be done | 0.05% | 1 |
| no comment | 0.05% | 1 |
| the NRA gun lobby need to fold; otherwise they've too much cloat / $ not enough politicians will group together to make change | 0.05% | 1 |
| Republican lawmakers or their immediate family members need to be victims of gun violence. | 0.05% | 1 |
| everyone needs to quit looking at the gun and look how did shooter get it and fix that problen but no one wants to talk about anything but gun reform and the gun is not the problem | 0.05% | 1 |
| I'm Canadian and I'd rather not chime in on another country's political business | 0.05% | 1 |
| Bring back the electric chair for the death penalty | 0.05% | 1 |
| Have it happen personally to them | 0.05% | 1 |
| Nothing you can do now, America is to far gone in my opinion. | 0.05% | 1 |
| parents need to be more actively involved in their child's upbringing | 0.05% | 1 |
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There have been more than 130 mass shootings across the US so far this year, including the latest in Nashville. Of these, an astounding 89 (not a typo) at a K-12 school. That's this year alone. By the time this survey gets published, those numbers may even be higher. Over the last few years, gun laws in Tennessee have become less strict after lawmakers approved legislation that removed requirements for permits and background checks. Despite calls from local law enforcement, Republican lawmakers are now looking to loosen the state's gun laws even further, contending that gun owners' rights need to be expanded. The Nashville shooter legally purchased the guns used. Do you think it's as ridiculous as I, that gun laws appear to be getting more relaxed, rather than stricter, as they should be? Yes
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1238 votes
No
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389 votes
Undecided
23%
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473 votes
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To mark 10 years since the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, Good Morning America asked survivors of school shootings across generations to write letters to future survivors about healing and moving forward. I'm pretty sure they never thought they would need to write these letters, ten years later. If you watch this video, does it make you angry that nothing seems to be changing with gun laws in the U.S.?
Very much so
51%
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1070 votes
Unsure
12%
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251 votes
No
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270 votes
Did not watch video
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509 votes
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Within 10 minutes of police saying that the suspect was transgender, the hashtag #TransTerrorism trended on Twitter. Around the same time, Republican lawmakers — including Sen. JD Vance, R-Ohio, and conservative firebrand Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga. — insinuated in social media posts that the shooter's gender identity played a role in the shooting. This detail, according to trans people in the state, has poured fuel on an already combustive environment that has led many of them to fear for their safety. Do you think that this attention has taken away from what the real issue is, and always has been, gun control laws? Yes, it has
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968 votes
No, the focus is still on the right issue
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233 votes
Don't know
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452 votes
It's not gun control laws that are the problem in this case
8%
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161 votes
It's not gun control laws that are the problem, in every case
14%
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286 votes
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