'You don't have to wait for Congress to save lives' when it comes to passing statewide gun control laws - The Boston Globe

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

42% : We will grow old, and many more of us will die in mass shootings, before we see the kinds of measures we truly need here -- like a reinstatement of the assault weapons ban, or, at the very least, a law prohibiting 18-year-olds from buying such murder machines.
39% : While some states look at horrific massacres like those in Buffalo and Uvalde, Texas, and decide, as New York and Rhode Island did recently, that they want to prevent more carnage, others actually loosen gun laws in the wake of those massacres -- though usually legislators of that ilk wait until the outrage over massacres subsides before they take steps to make them more likely.

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