On Mon, 17 Nov 2014 11:33:55 -0500, "Mr. Luddite"
wrote:

The majority of the US population favors background checks and registration.

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That is only because the population centers in the high density north
east and far west overwhelm the numbers in the rest of the country,
the part of the country where reason still prevails I might add.

The founding fathers of this great country envisioned this population
imbalance issue, and that is why the senate is structured the way it
is - to give low population states a voice than can not be trampled.