No single recent cowardly act from our cephlapodic congressmen so glaringly demonstrates the corrupting influence of big money than the senate's failure this week to pass Universal Background checks for gun purchases.
According to polls, 92 percent of Americans were in favor of the no brainer background check bill that would have screened out bad guys, you know, murderers and rapists, from purchasing say five guns at a time at a gun show.
Sounds like a pretty good idea, no?
But you'd never know there was such overwhelming citizen support for the measure by the senate's failure to garner the 60 votes to pass the bill. Does anyone actually still need proof of the National Rifle Association lobby's criminal reach in Washington?
What these spineless, obstructionist "no" vote congressmen are in effect saying is that they aren't interested in making our streets safer. They are saying that gun sales take precedent over our children's lives.
And they are daring you to do something about it. Will you?
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