In case you haven't noticed, politicians in Congress have not been representing their constituents or doing what their constituents wanted for at least the last decade. It kind of came to a head last week when Republican Senator Kelly Ayotte ran into a buzz saw at what was supposedly a carefully-scripted "town hall meeting" which was attended by a courageous and fiery woman named Erica Lafferty, the daughter of one of the adult Sandy Hook massacre victims (the adults in this tragedy have almost been forgotten)...who refused to follow the "rules" that the Republican Party handlers laid down.
To borrow a hockey analogy, she performed a clean open-ice body check on the Senator...and the Senator crumpled.
The simple fact is that the Senator, and all the other Republican Senators (plus a handful of Democratic Senators who wish they were Republicans) essentially voted the NRA line...to continue to make all firearms including automatic and semi-automatic weapons with any size magazine available at will to convicted felons, the drug-addled, and mentally insane individuals. All it takes is to drag their knuckles to the nearest "gun show" or to find a compliant 'friend' or other private party to give, sell, barter the weapon to them.
Oh, and by the way this is something that up to 90% of the American public has indicated they want to control and clamp down on. No hunter, sportsman, or just plain gun enthusiast loses their weapons or even has to register. Simply keeping the wackos out of the equation as well as our open society is able.
The creators of these "rules" by the way for the meeting were none other than the handlers of George W. Bush....they knew they had a particularly stupid persona on their hands who could not be trusted to speak extemporaneously in public or respond to intelligent questions...so they came up with the whole "town meetings where only people that agree with us" thing was invented.
Maybe this will be a chink in the illogical, immoral, and overly-armed fortress of the "guns for the insane" lobby that returns us to what the Constitution and representational government SHOULD be about!
Happy thinking!
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