Gun lobby’s fanaticism prevails over common sense (Cover that keyboard and monitor)

The Albany Herald ^ | April 19, 2013 | Cynthia Tucker

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You might have thought that the mangled bodies of 20 dead children would have been enough to overcome the crazed obsessions of the gun lobby.

You might have believed that the courage and exhortations of a former congresswoman — her career cut short and her life forever changed by a would-be assassin’s bullet — would have pushed Congress to do the right thing.

You might have reasoned that polls showing overwhelming public support for a sensible gun control measure would have persuaded politicians to take a modest step toward preventing more massacres.

You would have been wrong. The U.S. Senate sent a stark message to the citizens it is elected to represent: We couldn’t care less about what you want.

Fifteen years of highly publicized mass murders carried out by madmen with firearms — Columbine, Virginia Tech, Tucson and Aurora, to name just a few — have changed nothing. Newtown, where 26 people, including 20 young children, were mowed down by a man armed with an assault-type weapon and high-capacity magazines for his ammo, provoked little more than a ripple in the corridors of Washington, where the National Rifle Association and its like-minded lobbies carried the day.

The grip that the gun lobby maintains on Congress is hard to explain. The National Rifle Association has persuaded spineless politicians that it is an omnipotent election god, able to strike down those who don’t cower before it. That’s simply not true, but even if it were, aren’t some principles worth losing elections over?(continued)

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“For what it’s worth Gabby seems to have been totally unaware of the existence of George Wallace, and what happened to him ~ and she actually held an open air parking lot event the same year Arthur Bremmer was turned loose!”

Well actually Bremmer was released in 2007. Still a good point.

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Fifteen years of highly publicized mass murders carried out by madmen with firearms — Columbine, Virginia Tech, Tucson and Aurora, to name just a few...

And yet all of those combined don't come close to the number of innocents killed (reportedly at least 302) in Mexico and the US that involved guns from Obama's and Eric Holder's operation Fast & Furious.

I'm sure that Cynthia will have a piece coming out righteously condemning Obama and Eric Holder any day now...
/Sarcasm off