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f mayors advocating for stricter rules on gun sales and ownership.Speaking on WOR Radio on Friday, Bloomberg called on Obama and Romney to tell the public what they would do to reduce gun violence.Soothing words are nice, but maybe it's time that the two people who want to be president of the United States stand up and tell us what they are going to do about it Christian Louboutin Outlet Men, he said.I don't think there's any other developed country in the world that has remotely the problem we have, Bloomberg said. We have more guns than people in this country.Most Americans, however, do not believe that tougher gun laws would be the solution. Gallup polls over the last two decades show the percentage of Americans who favor making gun control laws more strict fell from 78 percent in 1990 to 44 percent in 2010.The Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence, the largest and oldest of America's gun-control groups, is a fraction of its peak size. The center and an affiliated political arm had revenue of $5.9 million in 2010, the most recent year for which information is publicly available - down 27 percent in three years.In the same year, the powerful pro-gun lobby christian louboutin outlet online, the National Rifle Association (NRA), and its various components took in $253 million from individuals, gun makers and sellers and other supporters Christian Louboutin Outlet.Even Democratic supporters of efforts to keep a tighter rein on weapons were relatively mum after the shooting.Democrats in conservative and rural states fear alienating gun owners and the NRA, and crucial presidential battleground states like Ohio, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Virginia, Iowa and North Carolina have large populations of enthusiastic gun owners.We're in the summer before a presidential election and I really don't foresee any serious discussion of gun control, said Kristin Goss of Duke University, the author of Disarmed: The Missing Movement for Gun Control in America.Some supporters of Democrat Al Gore still believe his support for gun control laws played a role in his loss of the 2000 presidential election, and memories of lost elec
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