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House Passes Semi-Automatic Gun Ban After 18-Year Lapse

Jul 30, 2022 View Original Article
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    -14% Somewhat Liberal

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  • Policy Leaning

    -44% Medium Liberal

  • Politician Portrayal

    -9% Negative

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

64% : But even that modest effort at halting gun violence came at time of grave uncertainty in the U.S. over restrictions on firearms as the more conservative Supreme Court is tackling gun rights and other issues.
56% : A recent vote to protect same-sex marriages from potential Supreme Court legal challenges won a surprising amount of bipartisan support.
47% :Jordan replied by inviting her to his congressional district to debate him on the Second Amendment, saying he believed most of his constituents "probably agree with me and agree with the United States Constitution."
44% :Democrats had tried to link the weapons ban to a broader package of public safety measures that would have increased federal funding for law enforcement.

*Our bias meter rating uses data science including sentiment analysis, machine learning and our proprietary algorithm for determining biases in news articles. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral. The rating is an independent analysis and is not affiliated nor sponsored by the news source or any other organization.

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