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Joe Nation

(962 posts)
Mon Apr 10, 2023, 01:21 PM Apr 2023

The 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.

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The real cost of electing Republicans - Your children (Original Post) Joe Nation Apr 2023 OP
YES. 100% better to make this about saving children. Irish_Dem Apr 2023 #1
this is my political yardstick, always. mopinko Apr 2023 #2
Joe The Plumber: 'Your Dead Kids Don't Trump My Constitutional Rights' To Have Guns keithbvadu2 Apr 2023 #3

Irish_Dem

(47,014 posts)
1. YES. 100% better to make this about saving children.
Mon Apr 10, 2023, 01:34 PM
Apr 2023

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)
2. this is my political yardstick, always.
Mon Apr 10, 2023, 01:39 PM
Apr 2023

if a govt isnt organized around caring for children and mothers, they will not succeed.

keithbvadu2

(36,788 posts)
3. Joe The Plumber: 'Your Dead Kids Don't Trump My Constitutional Rights' To Have Guns
Mon Apr 10, 2023, 02:35 PM
Apr 2023
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/05/27/joe-the-plumber-guns_n_5397981.html

Joe The Plumber: ‘Your Dead Kids Don’t 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.
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