political football a little bit. that is not representative of the state overall. polling here shows 80% of voters, wolf, support the central component of the law background checks. and 90% nationwide support background checks. more support across the country, wolf. certainly that s a fact. why was colorado, though, able to pass a strict law as it has when here in washington the nation s leaders seem stuck, at least for now. it s an excellent question. there are two central reasons that people point out here. one is that here in colorado, there was the threat of gun safety or gun violence, i should say, is very present in people s lives because columbine and the aurora massacre happened here. two of the worst massacres in u.s. history.
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right, well the nra clearly is an organization that has a stated agenda. they have opposed most restrictions. they continue to try and gut them cons they are eve once they are approved in law. it s not surprising that they won t like what joe biden had to say. i think there is consensus beginning to grow in this country in the wake of these horrible shootings, column pwaoeurpbgcolumbine, the aurora massacre, and newtown that something needs to be done. that 123,500 gun murders a year, 80 a day, seven of whom involve children is simply unacceptable and that we must do something, and therefore i m disappointed but not surprised that the nra is choosing not to work with joe biden on this. jon: kirstin, the journal news centered in white plains got a lot of coverage for publishing this list, thin tere active map of gun owners, putting their addresses out there, and so
he knows about ezra, of course is a policy guy. so he was looking at this through a policy lens. and the data it turns out, some of it is what you might suspect. but some of it really isn t. for example, we all know that there are a lot of mass killings in the united states. gun violence where multiple people are killed by the same assailant. this year alone before what happen today in connecticut, five people were killed in an atlanta suburb in february. a student shot up his high school cafeteria and killed three people later that same month. at that christian university in oakland, california, back in april, there were seven people killed. a targeted shooting spree in tulsa, oklahoma was racially motivated. five black men shot. three of them died. five people killed at the seattle cafe in may. there was the aurora massacre in july. 12 people killed, 58 additional people shot who were not killed. the sikh temple pass killing in oak creek, wisconsin, in august. that was the white supr
assailant. this year alone before what happen today in connecticut, five people were killed in an atlanta suburb in february. a student shot up his high school cafeteria and killed three people later that same month at that christian university in oakland california back in april, there were seven people killed. a targeted shooting spree in tulsa, oklahoma was racially motivated. five black men shot. three of them died. five people killed at the seattle cafe in may. there was the aurora massacre in july. 12 people killed, 58 additional people shot who were not killed. the sikh temple pass killing in oak creek, wisconsin, in august. that was the white supremacist guy. six people were killed in that massacre. the gunman was also killed. in september, the minneapolis sign company with the disgruntled employee. five people shot and killed there the wisconsin spa shooting in october, three people dead there plus the shooter. just this week that mall in clackamas, oregon. two dead plus the s