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Gun control will prevail regardless of next president, says researcher
http://www.guns.com/2016/11/01/gun-control-will-prevail-regardless-of-next-president-according-to-advocate/
It doesn’t matter which candidate is elected the next leader of the free world next Tuesday, stricter gun control is inevitable — at least according to one onlooker. Philip Alpers is the founding director of GunPolicy.org, an organization devoted to publishing facts and figures on gun violence and gun control. It’s hosted by the Sydney School of Public Health at the University of Sydney in Australia. Alpers says it doesn’t matter what Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump think about gun control, American citizens will not continue to tolerate an “ever-worsening state of armed violence.”
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He calls armed violence a public health problem and says the gun lobby in America has suppressed research into the problem for 20 years, according to his references.
“Imagine the outcry if for two decades the transportation industry lobby had managed to choke off all federal funds for road safety research,” Alpers wrote.
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“This pair of presidential candidates will be long gone, but America’s children will insist,” he says.
It doesn’t matter which candidate is elected the next leader of the free world next Tuesday, stricter gun control is inevitable — at least according to one onlooker. Philip Alpers is the founding director of GunPolicy.org, an organization devoted to publishing facts and figures on gun violence and gun control. It’s hosted by the Sydney School of Public Health at the University of Sydney in Australia. Alpers says it doesn’t matter what Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump think about gun control, American citizens will not continue to tolerate an “ever-worsening state of armed violence.”
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He calls armed violence a public health problem and says the gun lobby in America has suppressed research into the problem for 20 years, according to his references.
“Imagine the outcry if for two decades the transportation industry lobby had managed to choke off all federal funds for road safety research,” Alpers wrote.
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“This pair of presidential candidates will be long gone, but America’s children will insist,” he says.
From Guns.com no less.
It is inevitable. It won't happen overnight but it has begun.
Go.
Vote.
Defeat the NRA.
TAKE SOMEONE WITH YOU.
(Why is this inevitable? I've got another post following this that might show why. http://www.democraticunderground.com/126211748 )