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TMIQ Today: Gun Laws · The Most Important Question

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  [ on-hold music] Welcome back to The Most Important Question Today where in just a couple minutes or less, we apply the Actually Pro-Life principles to a news headline and then help you answer the most important question: what can I do?
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  [on-hold music] Most people in this country want stricter gun laws. You probably do. I certainly do. Turns out, here's why there aren't any yet.
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  Every time children are killed at a school, money starts moving, and it's basically on a schedule.
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  Three Stanford researchers took twenty-five years of campaign records and lined them up against every fatal school shooting since 2000.
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  When kids are killed at a school, the gun lobby's political committees start writing bigger checks to the House candidates in that district. Not after a shooting where nobody died,
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  not after a mass shooting somewhere else. When kids die at school. The timing here is the tell.
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  And get this, if the shooting falls within two months of election day, pro-gun money into that district jumps by about two thousand eight hundred percent.
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  The gun safety groups answer by about nine hundred percent, but the study reads, "In a competitive district, the two-sided surge offsets any measurable electoral impact." It's a draw, and no law passes, and here we are.
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  But the bill that hasn't passed exists already. It's called the Assault Weapons Ban of 2025. Adam Schiff introduced it.
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  It's been sitting in the Senate Judiciary Committee under Chuck Grassley, of course, with no action ever since. I'm so angry about all of this.
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  Please join Moms Demand Action or Giff to Giffords, whose entire job is holding the gun lobby accountable. Both of them are on whatcanido.earth.
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  Then you can use our handy map to call your senator about the Assault Weapons Ban of 2025. [on-hold music] Thanks for listening.
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