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Gwen Moore
Gwen Moore
stated on August 26, 2020 Twitter:
In contrast to how a Black man who was shot by police was treated, Kenosha police officers "let an armed white supremacist walk right past them after shooting people."
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By Haley BeMiller • September 1, 2020
Viral image
Viral image
stated on June 8, 2020 post on Facebook:
“Cops in Norway: require 3 years of training, 4 people killed since 2002. Cops in Finland: require 2 years of training, 7 people killed since 2000. Cops in Iceland: require 2 years of training, 1 person killed since ever. Cops in the U.S.: require 21 weeks of training, 8,000+ people killed since 2001.”
Half-True
By Emily Venezky • June 16, 2020
Eric Burlison
Eric Burlison
stated on January 20, 2020 a tweet:
“Remember, the American Revolution began when they came for the guns.”
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By Anna Peterson • March 18, 2020
Republican National Committee
Republican National Committee
stated on March 5, 2020 a mass email:
On key issues including taxes, health care, the Green New Deal, abortion, and guns, there is “no daylight between” Bernie Sanders and Joe Biden.
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By Louis Jacobson • March 10, 2020
Scott Jenkins
Scott Jenkins
stated on January 13, 2020 remarks:
“There are more guns in this country than there are citizens.”
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By Warren Fiske • February 5, 2020
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on August 4, 2019 a Facebook post:
"People with pre-existing mental health conditions have access to firearms and not health care."
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By Ciara O'Rourke • November 7, 2019
Elizabeth Warren
Elizabeth Warren
stated on September 12, 2019 a Democratic debate in Houston:
"54 senators said, let's do background checks, let's get rid of assault weapons, and with 54 senators it failed because of the filibuster."
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By Amy Sherman • September 13, 2019
Amy Klobuchar
Amy Klobuchar
stated on August 12, 2019 an interview:
The "boyfriend loophole" means that "if you commit a serious crime of domestic abuse against your wife, you can't get a gun, but if you do it against your girlfriend, you can."  
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By Tom Kertscher • August 22, 2019
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on August 4, 2019 remarks in Morristown, N.J.:
Asked what his administration would be doing about "the gun problem," said, "We have done much more than most administrations. … We’ve done, actually, a lot."
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By Louis Jacobson • August 8, 2019
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on August 5, 2019 a video on Twitter:
"There are more assault rifles, as I understand it, in the hands of private citizens than in the hands of the United States military. We're talking about 5 to 10 million assault weapons in the hands of private citizens."  
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By Tom Kertscher • August 8, 2019
Bill Clinton
Bill Clinton
stated on August 5, 2019 a tweet:
"After (the assault weapon ban) passed in 1994, there was a big drop in mass shooting deaths. When the ban expired, they rose again."  
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By Jon Greenberg • August 7, 2019
Eric Swalwell
Eric Swalwell
stated on April 14, 2019 a campaign rally:
In 2017, the first piece of legislation that Republicans passed "made it easier for the mentally ill to purchase guns."
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By Julianna Rennie • April 22, 2019
Alcee Hastings
Alcee Hastings
stated on February 5, 2019 a statement to the press:
"In 2018, we endured a school shooting nearly once a week."
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By Amy Sherman • February 11, 2019
Matthew Rothschild
Matthew Rothschild
stated on January 3, 2019 a radio interview:
The NRA is "one of the biggest lobbyists here in the capital. They spend a ton of money during elections. …  they spent more than a million dollars here in Wisconsin on the 2018 elections. Most of that was for Walker, or more specifically against Evers."
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By D.L. Davis • January 24, 2019
Josh Hawley
Josh Hawley
stated on October 25, 2018 a debate:
Says a manufacturing operation in his hometown that made gunstock for Remington rifles "closed down, we lost those jobs and it's been devastating for my little town."
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By Titus Wu • November 5, 2018
Patrick Morrisey
Patrick Morrisey
stated on August 31, 2018 a tweet:
Sen. Joe Manchin "stands with Hillary Clinton and D.C. Dems on gun control, higher taxes, amnesty, and Planned Parenthood."
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By Lili Zecevic, Patrick Orsagos • October 5, 2018
Paul Soglin
Paul Soglin
stated on March 23, 2018 a public forum:
"If there is a firearm available, it is 17 times more likely to be used either for suicide or for assaulting a friend, relative, an acquaintance than it is to be used in fending off an intruder."  
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By Taylor Palmby • July 12, 2018
Shannon Watts
Shannon Watts
stated on May 21, 2018 a tweet:
"Trained police hit their targets less than 30 percent of the time."
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By John Kruzel • May 25, 2018
Bloggers
Bloggers
stated on March 16, 2018 a headline:
"Ohio student suspended for staying in class during National Walkout Day"
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By Amy Sherman • March 28, 2018
Cory Booker
Cory Booker
stated on March 14, 2018 a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing:
"Research shows that 1 percent of licensed dealers supply a whopping 57 percent of the guns that are recovered in crimes."
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By Allison Graves • March 16, 2018
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