The NRA really needs to learn when to shut up! They are doing their "cause" no favors and are alienating a lot of people (including current allies in positions of power) or those that used to be at least neutral on the subject of reasonable gun control.
And now it turns out that far from being the beacon of reasonableness in firearms knowledge that they would have us believe, the NRA in fact has been using its purse and influence to suppress any research or fact-finding. What's the matter folks...afraid of some facts? Here are some facts for you:
In 1968, Martin Luther King (aged 39) and Robert Kennedy (age 42) were shot. 42 years after those murders 1,260,703 Americans have died by firearms - including suicides, the largest portion of that number. (And coincidentally far more American deaths than all the misbegotten "wars" the US has gotten into in that same period).
Do you suppose this has any relation to the fact that 50% of all the firearms in the world are in the US?
Nahhh.. couldn't be because the NRA doesn't say it is so (or allow the CDC to dig into the facts)!
Given that they really lost big in this last election (only 0.83% of their massive contributions went to winning candidates), maybe its time to just be quiet, lick some self-inflicted wounds, and think about what is good for the US as a whole for a change?
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