Throughout the primary election season, voters in the top Senate battleground states have been witness to a parade of Republican candidates trying to display their proficiency with guns and expressing their full-throated commitment to the Second Amendment
released ads last month showing themselves firing guns — in both cases, shooting rounds using three different types of firearms.
The two candidates — who are engaged in an official recount after Oz took a narrow lead in last week’s primary election — each posted on social media that they were mourning those killed in the shooting, but stopped short of proposing any change in gun laws. The Senate’s most vulnerable Democratic incumbents this fall are refraining from specific calls to round up assault weapons or implement sweeping changes to federal firearm laws. Instead, they’re using measured language like “common sense” gun reform and “we must act” when speaking about the need to prevent future gun violence.
Several national strategists contacted for this story — on both sides of the aisle — said it’s likely only a matter of time until the gun violence conversation blows over again. In their cynical view, swing-state Republicans are unlikely to face repercussions for keeping a low profile on the issue because inflation and economic concerns, meanwhile, remain a top priority for voters.
Two years later, in the aftermath of a deadly school shooting in Parkland, Fla., then-Florida Gov. Rick Scott signed into law a series of gun control measures. A month later, Scott officially announced his challenge to Democratic Sen. Bill Nelson, a race he later won by one-tenth of a percentage point.
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