Yet another mass shooting by cowards using assault weapons. The ultimate response to it maddeningly predictable. After the grief, after the anger, after the politics, there will be no real response at all. Nothing will change - except the NRA will get its way, again, politicians will keep their jobs, again, and more innocent people die, again, and again, and again.
The NRA owns the majority of congress. A vote against the NRA imperils too many political careers - no way that's going to happen. The majority of politicians then willing to sacrifice innocent human life - children, men, women, rather than risk their careers voting for simple common sense gun control that may just save life but is opposed by the NRA - cowards that they are. Children murdered at their desks in school are less important than representatives keeping their jobs, and certainly less important than the NRA.
The arguments by the NRA against simple common sense gun law reform are as ridiculous as they are morally bankrupt. Laws as simple as don't sell assault weapons without a background check at gun shows. Don't sell weapons that have no other purpose than to kill human beings in large numbers, to suspected terrorists, people on the no fly list, or the mentally ill. The argument against passing these laws is that doing so establishes a slippery slope to the government taking away everyone's guns. It is an argument as ludicrous as not passing speeding laws as they are a first step to taking away everyone's cars.
The NRA has become an organization of socially irresponsible extremists - and they do us real harm - over and over again. It is time to reign in these nut jobs and to replace the career politicians who do their bidding, with those with a social conscience. It is time to enact common sense gun laws. It is time - well past time - to DO SOMETHING.
The NRA owns the majority of congress. A vote against the NRA imperils too many political careers - no way that's going to happen. The majority of politicians then willing to sacrifice innocent human life - children, men, women, rather than risk their careers voting for simple common sense gun control that may just save life but is opposed by the NRA - cowards that they are. Children murdered at their desks in school are less important than representatives keeping their jobs, and certainly less important than the NRA.
The arguments by the NRA against simple common sense gun law reform are as ridiculous as they are morally bankrupt. Laws as simple as don't sell assault weapons without a background check at gun shows. Don't sell weapons that have no other purpose than to kill human beings in large numbers, to suspected terrorists, people on the no fly list, or the mentally ill. The argument against passing these laws is that doing so establishes a slippery slope to the government taking away everyone's guns. It is an argument as ludicrous as not passing speeding laws as they are a first step to taking away everyone's cars.
The NRA has become an organization of socially irresponsible extremists - and they do us real harm - over and over again. It is time to reign in these nut jobs and to replace the career politicians who do their bidding, with those with a social conscience. It is time to enact common sense gun laws. It is time - well past time - to DO SOMETHING.
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