The NRA bought and paid for republican Senators voted against any gun reform. We should make them pay.
https://usuncut.com/politics/see-how-much-nra-paid-your-senator/
Here's a list of republican Senators that voted against gun reform and why:
Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.): $23,426
202-224-4944
Kelly Ayotte (R-N.H.): $7,450
202-224-3324
John Barrasso (R-Wyo.): $21,489
202-224-6441
Roy Blunt (R-Mo.): $1,439,902
202-224-5721
John Boozman (R-Ark.): $61,296
202-224-4843
Richard Burr (R-N.C.): $805,219
202-224-3154
Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.): $335,770
202-224-6472
Bill Cassidy (R-La.): $2,861,047
202-224-5824
Thad Cochran (R-Miss.): $65,833
202-224-5054
Susan Collins (R-Maine): $18,099
202-224-2523
Bob Corker (R-Tenn.): $79,203
202-224-3344
John Cornyn (R-Texas): $57,135
202-224-2934
Tom Cotton (R-Ark.): $1,968,714
202-224-2353
Mike Crapo (R-Idaho): $52,135
202-224-6142
Ted Cruz (R-Texas): $75,450
202-224-5922
Steve Daines (R-Mont.): $121,711
202-224-2651
Mike Enzi (R-Wyo.): $24,722
202-224-3424
Joni Ernst (R-Iowa): $3,124,273
202-224-3254
Deb Fischer (R-Neb.): $14,960
202-224-6551
Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.): $365,302
202-224-4521
Cory Gardner (R-Colo.): $3,879,064
202-224-5941
Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.): $49,049
202-224-5972
Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa): $113,602
202-224-3744
Orrin Hatch (R-Utah): $140,748
202-224-5251
Dean Heller: (R-Nev.): $122,802
202-224-6244
John Hoeven (R-N.D.): $17,499
202-224-2551
James Inhofe (R-Okla.): $65,191
202-224-4721
Johnny Isakson (R-Ga.): $100,353
202-224-3643
Ron Johnson (R-Wis.): $615,681
202-224-5323
James Lankford (R-Okla.): $11,463
202-224-5754
Mike Lee (R-Utah): $4,617
202-224-5444
John McCain (R-Ariz.): $7,740,221
202-224-2235
Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.): $1,261,874
202-224-2541
Jerry Moran (R-Kan.): $22,171
202-224-6521
Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska): $130,738
202-224-6665
Rand Paul (R-Ky.): $2,500
202-224-4343
David Perdue (R-Ga.): $1,825,006
202-224-3521
Rob Portman (R-Ohio): $1,412,819
202-224-3353
Jim Risch (R-Idaho): $18,850
202-224-2752
Pat Roberts (R-Kan.): $1,584,153
202-224-4774
Mike Rounds (R-S.D.): $93,049
202-224-5842
Marco Rubio (R-Fla.): $4,950
202-224-3041
Ben Sasse (R-Neb.): $68,623
202-224-4224
Tim Scott (R-S.C.): $17,013
202-224-6121
Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.): $35,750
202-224-4124
Richard Shelby (R-Ala.): $259,464
202-224-5744
John Thune (R-N.D.): $628,645
202-224-2321
Thom Tillis (R-N.C.): $4,418,042
202-224-6342
David Vitter (R-La.): $35,250
202-224-4623
Roger Wicker (R-Miss.): $88,406
202-224-6253
The money came directly from the NRA. It's disgusting just disgusting!!!!!!!
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Texas Senator Cornyn's bill offered nothing for real gun control and was defeated anyway. It was more symbolic than practical. It call for a judge to deem a person not to be able to buy a gun meaning there had to be probable cause. In other words the person had to commit a crime not just be on the "no fly list."
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2016/06/gun-safety-measures-defeated...
I don't get the republicans. They want to monitor every single muslim without probable cause, yet they won't enact ANY gun legislation to ban people on the terrorist watch list from buying a gun, ANY gun!
As far as probable cause goes, the SCOTUS allowed drug test without probable cause.
It's all fickle and hypocritical!
Well, there's the rest of my trust and support for the NRA gone. I've done my own research, and have decided you are correct. Where do I show support for gun reform? Or can I even do that since I'm only sixteen? I just hope you all understand enough to not call me a hypocrite for changing my mind based of relevant information.
There is nothing wrong with changing your mind.
I'm not sure where I sit on this issue, but I'm not opposed to modest reforms.
You still can fight the NRA here's one way: https://www.facebook.com/FightTheNRA/
"They want to monitor every single muslim without probable cause, yet they won't enact ANY gun legislation to ban people on the terrorist watch list from buying a gun, ANY gun!"
None of my business perhaps (I'm in the UK), but I'd like to add that most of them also oppose the legalization of drugs, yet they don't have the self-awareness to see their own addiction to the gun-culture.
The "drug war" is a whole different thing. It is a tool created by Nixon to bring down liberals that opposed his politics and for no other reason. At the time Nixon was embroiled in a failing war in Vietnam. He saw "Hippies" as dirty drug using anarchist. He saw the civil rights movement move from Martin Luther King Jr. "peaceful protest" to angry black militants. Nixon's war on drugs was an excuse to arrest and jail all that opposed him. The republican party has embraced this using law enforcement to systematically prey upon the poor and the disenfranchised. Police harassment, disproportional penalties on minor offenses, are all part of the conservative tool against immigrants, minorities, LGBT's, labor, unions, Liberals, Atheist, muslims, and anyone that isn't white, rich, politically conservative, and protestant. That is why the "war on drugs continues. BTW the hypocrisy of it is immense. Bush I while head of the CIA and as VP and later POTUS was deeply involved in Iran-Contra. Buying drugs from Columbia drug lords to destabilize Central and South American governments, selling those drugs via LA street gangs, laundering the revenue through the Bank of Panama, and now in Banks in the Grand Caymans, and Belize, to fund Black Ops.
So it is different but just as corrupt.
The gun thing is a conservative distraction. It is a way to gin up the paranoid conservative base. They mischaracterize any gun legislation as an infringement on civil rights. Thus stirring up the wacko far right base. They use religion in the same manner.
It's a convoluted, multi-pronged, propaganda politic campaign smear to attack the middle class and poor in this nation that only benefits the corrupt corporations and very rich.
Thank goodness Democratic House Members are staging a sit in to force a vote on a house bill for gun legislation. Paul Ryan Speaker of the House due to gerrymandering districts will not even recognize Democratic representatives to speak. That is a violation of parliamentary procedure and tantamount to treason under the Constitution. Therefore Democratic members of the House have staged a "sit-in" until they can get a vote on a house gun bill.
http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/06/house-democrats-gun-...
The republicans think that this will just go away, but Democratic representatives in the House and Senate are determined to do the work that over 90% of the people want.