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'This Is a National Emergency': Dems Push for Assault Weapons Ban Amid String of Massacres

Jan 24, 2023 View Original Article
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    -10% Center

  • Reliability

    95% ReliableExcellent

  • Policy Leaning

    10% Center

  • Politician Portrayal

    -18% Negative

Bias Score Analysis

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

45% : "It is far past time to reenact an assault weapons ban and get these weapons of war out of our communities."
43% : "We passed the assault weapons ban in the House last year with bipartisan support, which was then blocked by Senate Republicans.
37% : ""It is far past time to reenact an assault weapons ban and get these weapons of war out of our communities," Rep. David Cicilline (D-R.I.) said in a statement.
30% : Gun control advocates slammed the bill as "crumbs" and demanded much more -- from universal background checks to a ban on assault weapons.

*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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