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[zebonaut]

[whereisjustice]

1. NRA is making money from slaughter. Find the courage to stand up and tell them to go

to hell. We aren't going to take it. It's literally that simple. Just fight back.

Start with sensible gun laws like holding gun owners responsible if their gun is used in a crime.

Demand background checks. The NRA cannot blame lack of mental screening and then fight against background checks. They should be first in line. The reason they fight against background checks is because MANY OF THEIR MEMBERS WOULD FAIL.

Demand taxes on ammo. Limits on weapons. Demand registration and uniform gun laws nationwide.

Demand NRA contribute to a fund to pay for trauma centers, detectives, morgues, rescue units, etc. Gun violence is costing us over $200 billion a year in tax money to pay for the mess.

Demand gun owners buy insurance to help pay for the slaughter they force us to live with.

There are many much needed reforms to our gun laws.

As a recent post cited, if they can regulate a woman's constitutionally protected right to an abortion, we can regulate their guns, including the ones right wing gun nuts use to threaten women's health centers.

The NRA and their benefactors use fear and intimidation and an implicit threat of violence to keep sane gun laws off the books.

The slaughter won't stop until we stop being sheep to the NRA.

[Old Crow]

2. I share your passion on this issue.

Personally, I'd like the U.S. to adopt regulations similar to those Australia enacted in 1996. But I have one key disagreement with your post. It's not simply a matter of fighting back against the NRA. It's a matter of:

1. Getting money out of politics so that the NRA can't choose which candidates hold elected office; and

2. Voting in candidates who are for stricter gun control laws.

Admittedly, neither is an easy task, which is why we're in the sorry state we're in. But without #1 and #2 being accomplished, there's little hope for change.

[Snoopy 7]

4. 97%

97% is the percentage of people who wanted gun control after the last school shooting and WE got nothing. As long as the US Supreme Court is also, like our law makers, bought and paid for we will never get what we want. The Citizens United case made corporations people and money = speech to reach the decision of:

(a) Although the First Amendment provides that "Congress shall make no law ... abridging the freedom of speech," §441b's prohibition on corporate independent expenditures is an outright ban on speech, backed by criminal sanctions. - See more at: http://caselaw.findlaw.com/us-supreme-court/08-205.html#sthash.KLxIqZ9q.dpuf

So as long as we have the supreme court making law, which is against the law, "Breaking his promise of “judicial restraint above all else,” Chief Justice Roberts’s court “has been far too willing to undermine or discard longstanding precedent,” (Gil Troy Daily Beast article)

[whereisjustice]

3. The NRA has many customers I've listed a few of them here...

If only Congress served the rest of the country as well as they serve the NRA and these murderous bastards.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=7238856