Massively Popular Ideas Can't Pass Congress. Is It Time To Reform The System?

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🗓️ 11 July 2022

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

The overwhelming majority of gun owners are in favor of universal background checks, of raising the minimum age to buy guns to 21 and so-called "red flag" laws to remove guns from potentially dangerous people, a new NPR/Ipsos survey finds. That mirrors the support among the rest of the public.

So why is it that ideas with broad-based support have such trouble becoming federal law?

This episode: White House correspondent Tamara Keith, senior political editor and correspondent Domenico Montanaro, and national political correspondent Mara Liasson.

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0:00.0	This is Michelle in Copenhagen, Denmark, where even though it's after 10,
0:04.3	there's still enough light to finish filling out my primary ballot,
0:07.1	so it will get back to Maryland in time to be counted.
0:10.1	This podcast was recorded at 2.25 pm on Monday, July 11th.
0:16.0	Things may have changed by the time you hear this,
0:18.1	but American citizens will still be able to vote from abroad.
0:21.6	Now here's the show.
0:26.5	Very cool.
0:27.6	At first I was thinking they have primaries in Copenhagen,
0:30.8	and I was like, wait, the same way.
0:32.6	You know, she's from Maryland.
0:34.2	I can't wait for those ads to stop.
0:37.2	Ah, local TV ads are making me crazy.
0:40.0	Hey there, it's the NPR Politics Podcast.
0:42.4	I'm Tamer Keith. I cover the White House.
0:44.4	I'm Dominic Almonton, I'm Senior Political Editor and Correspondent.
0:47.6	And I'm Mara Lias and National Political Correspondent.
0:50.7	Will we match thoughts and prayers with action?
0:54.1	I say yes, and that's what we're doing here today.
0:58.1	That is, of course, President Biden at a ceremony
1:01.2	on the south lawn of the White House to celebrate,
1:04.1	as they described it, the first substantial federal gun
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