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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThe real cost of electing Republicans - Your children
The dynamic of the gun manufacturing lobby pushing more and more lenient gun access laws across the country as well as a core group of Right wing Second Amendment fanatics threatening any Republican with loss of their legislative position if they promote any commonsense gun legislation, boils down to Republicans trading our children's lives for their coveted government jobs.
So, what exactly is the ratio of Republican legislators to dead children over time? How many children does it cost to keep each Republican comfy cozy in their lucrative taxpayer job?
The only thing these Republicans worry about is the loss of their jobs. They aren't even pretending to care about kids gunned down in classrooms anymore. They simply go silent until the next shooting and quietly pass more and more lenient gun laws in between mass shootings. Rinse and repeat.
The cost of electing any Republican is just too high. No child deserves to die so some fraternity boy can live up to daddy's expectations. If they are willing to use our children to further their own political careers, why do we even need them? The Republican Party has to wither and die if our children are to live in a world free of school mass shootings.
ELECT DEMOCRATS - SAVE CHILDREN.
Irish_Dem
(47,014 posts)Don't frame it about guns.
Make it about adults being responsible for the safety of children.
Just like we shouldn't make it about abortion.
Make it about women's human rights.
mopinko
(70,090 posts)if a govt isnt organized around caring for children and mothers, they will not succeed.
keithbvadu2
(36,788 posts)Joe The Plumber: Your Dead Kids Dont Trump My Constitutional Rights To Have Guns
Ironic how he chose that verb back in 2014
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To the gun industry, dead children are collateral damage/acceptable losses for gun industry profits and political donations.