The Revolution that Hillary is Leading - the one mothers are desperate for

[MrWendel]

http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2016/4/4/1499183/-The-Revolution-that-Hillary-is-Leading-the-one-mothers-are-desperate-for

By yankeegrl


Stand with Hillary - Fight the NRA!

She’s the only presidential candidate to say that she’s going to fight the NRA, and I’m proud to stand right beside her in this fight. Over 33,000 thousand Americans are dying per year from gun violence — the majority of them children. They have become innocent victims in our inability to regulate an industry that literally profits off the death of these children. Every gun and bullet used to kill a child has an industry of manufacturing and marketing behind it that has funded one of the most powerful lobbyists that currently exists in this country, the NRA. So powerful, in fact, that despite the minority of Americans, and even the minority of gun owners, that are members of the NRA, they somehow wield more power than the majority of American citizens, and the majority of gun owners (myself included), in our country. They use intimidation, money (that is protected by industry immunity), and an arbitrary grading scheme to further their propaganda — and profit driven model — that our country is safer when we have more guns. They forbid us from doing gun violence research and they have lobbied for immunity of their industry, knowing full well how legally vulnerable they are. The NRA, to me, is the exact type of oppressive power that the 2nd Amendment was designed to protect us from — yet they use it against us, and mostly against our children. Just like we vaccinate our children from deadly diseases, it is time to vaccinate our children from the irresponsible, profit-driven goals of the gun industry. And it is also time to vote for candidates that will lead this fight, not cower in the corner with a false sense of security and righteousness on the issue.

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1. She's the only one who has the courage to confront the NRA

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2. K&R

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3. K&R!

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4. K&R

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5. Excellent article!

Thank you, MrWendel.

What a massive change enforcing guns laws would have on murder rates. People are dying on our streets in greater numbers than those of war. Time to do something about it!

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6. KICK

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So true. In the muddle of the primaries, people often forget about the importance of fighting the NRA.