2-16-18 SHORT HILLS: The shooting at Parkland, FL was horrible, as horrible as all the rest of the shootings, and it seems as if there is a new one each week. The NRA apologists, mostly Republicans, offer their ‘thoughts and prayers’ after each incident, which is almost as bad as the incident itself. The pious hypocrisies about ‘not talking about gun control in the wake of a tragedy’ are equally infuriating.
Someone posted on Twitter how much money some prominent Republicans received from the NRA supposedly for re-election campaigns. The donations listed came to about a million dollars. Can you imagine how much they gave away in total to Congressmen and State legislators? It must be in the hundreds of millions.
To take it one step further, the gun and bullet business must be so incredibly profitable that they can give away hundreds of millions of dollars. What do the lives of the seventeen victims matter in the face of those profits. It also makes the point that the NRA is not a bunch of hunters and sportsmen, but the big business of arms sales.
How can we get meaningful gun control?
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Amen.
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