{"id":9918,"date":"2013-03-13T12:36:03","date_gmt":"2013-03-13T19:36:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bradblog.com\/?p=9918"},"modified":"2013-03-13T12:35:58","modified_gmt":"2013-03-13T19:35:58","slug":"universal-background-checks-for-gun-sales-more-popular-than-vacations-italian-food-capitalism-but-senate-republicans-vote-against-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=9918","title":{"rendered":"Universal Background Checks for Gun Sales More Popular Than Vacations, Italian Food, Capitalism &#8211; But Senate Republicans Vote Against Them"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Rachel Maddow&#8217;s show last night, she opened with an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/id\/26315908\/ns\/msnbc_tv-rachel_maddow_show\/#51156401\">interesting and lengthy segment<\/a> on the difficulty of moving gun safety regulations through Congress over the years, even in the aftermath of JFK&#8217;s assassination.<\/p>\n<p>This chart, however, and the quick thoughts on it that followed, caught my eye. It&#8217;s based on details from a new <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/page\/2010-2019\/WashingtonPost\/2013\/03\/12\/National-Politics\/Polling\/release_217.xml\"><i>Washington Post<\/i> poll<\/a> released Tuesday, asking &#8220;Would you support or oppose a law requiring background checks on people buying guns at gun shows?&#8221;&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/page\/2010-2019\/WashingtonPost\/2013\/03\/12\/National-Politics\/Polling\/release_217.xml\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/Images\/WaPo_GunShowBackgroundChecks_CapitalismVacationsItalianFood_031213.jpg\"><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<div class=\"media\">MADDOW: Universal background checks, it&#8217;s at 91 [percent]. They&#8217;re more popular than capitalism, Italian food and vacations. Universal background checks have 91% support, when <i>nothing<\/i> has 91% support.<\/p>\n<p>When the Senate Judiciary Committee today moved a universal background checks bill &#8212; they moved it through committee to send to a floor vote in the Senate later this week &#8212; do you want to know how many Republicans voted <i>for<\/i> universal background checks on the committee? Zero. The vote was 10 to 8. All the Democrats vote in favor. All the Republicans voted against.<\/p>\n<p>All the Republicans voted against something with 91% support among the public. Tell me how this ends for the Republican Party.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Rachel Maddow&#8217;s show last night, she opened with an interesting and lengthy segment on the difficulty of moving gun safety regulations through Congress over the years, even in the aftermath of JFK&#8217;s assassination. This chart, however, and the quick thoughts on it that followed, caught my eye. It&#8217;s based on details from a new [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[551,300,126],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-9918","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nra","category-republicans","category-rights-and-freedoms","bb-type-bradblog"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9918","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9918"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9918\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9918"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=9918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}