{"id":21464,"date":"2014-07-08T09:58:49","date_gmt":"2014-07-08T13:58:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/blog\/?p=21464"},"modified":"2014-07-08T09:58:49","modified_gmt":"2023-08-17T17:47:16","slug":"10-questions-everytown-asked-gun-sense-voter-questionnaire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/10-questions-everytown-asked-gun-sense-voter-questionnaire\/","title":{"rendered":"The 10 questions Everytown should have asked on its ‘Gun Sense Voter’ questionnaire"},"content":{"rendered":"
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John Feinblatt, the president of Everytown for Gun Safety, appears on MSNBC to discuss the “Not One More” campaign <\/a>spawned in the wake of the spree killing in Isla Vista, California. (Photo: Everytown<\/em>)<\/p><\/div>\n

As part of its campaign to convince voters to support politicians who back tougher gun laws, Everytown for Gun Safety released a questionnaire<\/a> on Monday aimed at getting candidates to disclose where they stand on various gun-control measures.<\/p>\n

\u201cFor decades the NRA has asked candidates about their positions on guns \u2013 now we\u2019re going toe-to-toe with the gun lobby and asking candidates 10 yes-or-no questions about preventing the gun violence that kills 86 Americans every day,\u201d said John Feinblatt, President of Everytown for Gun Safety, in a press release.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe know where the American public stands \u2013 more than 90 percent support common-sense gun safety measures like background checks \u2013 now it\u2019s time for political candidates to tell us where they stand,” he continued.<\/p>\n

Since the group’s main focus has been lobbying for universal background checks since the mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, in December 2012, it was not at all surprising that roughly half of the questions on the survey asked about laws designed to expand background checks and keep firearms out of the hands of dangerous people, for example:<\/p>\n