For Wall Street It's "Peace On Earth, Goodwill Toward Remington"

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For Wall Street It's "Peace On Earth, Goodwill Toward Remington"
Richard (RJ) Eskow
Posted: 12/25/2012 2:59 pm

Despite an epidemic of gun deaths, the river of gun cash never stops flowing. If you follow that river upstream you'll see that its source lies very close to Wall Street. And the river's mouth speaks with the voice of politicians, whose campaign fundraising is undoubtedly taking place even on this supposedly holy day for most of them.

'Tis the season to be lobbied.

"More than 50 firearms-related companies have given at least $14.8 million" to the National Rifle Association, Bloomberg News reports -- and that's just the money we know about. The NRA spent nearly $25 million in the last election cycle alone. True to form, the NRA's chief said this week that we need more guns in the schools to end the killing of our children.

That's like spreading a flu virus to stop an epidemic.