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flamin lib

(14,559 posts)
Fri Oct 2, 2015, 10:56 AM Oct 2015

I'm seeing a lot of new names posting about gun control today.

Thank you and welcome to the cause. For some of us it is almost all consuming. Thirty thousand plus die every year from gun violence and another 100,000 plus are injured. The cost of gun violence to the economy is $229 Billion.

We can do better.

There are currently 90 bills relating to gun control languishing in Congress and there is $1.2 billion earmarked for improving the National Instant Criminal Check system held up in the Senate Appropriations Committee since 2008.

I invite you to get off you butt right now and call and email your congresscritters regardless of how right wing nutzoid they might be. It makes a difference, ask any gun nut.

If you don't know who your representative and senators are go here:
https://www.opencongress.org/people/zipcodelookup

When you're finished with the ones in D.C. find your local and state reps and do the same. Google is your friend.




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