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Raster

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12. Congress is NOT chickenshit. Congress is doing an OUTSTANDING job...

Fri Dec 4, 2015, 08:34 AM

Dec 2015

... serving the needs of their primary constituents. UNFORTUNATELY, that is not you or I. We just elect them, kind of. Congress serves other masters, those all powerful and immortal persons that pull the strings: corporations. And when it comes to guns and their regulation - or lack of - Congress answers to the NRA, ostensibly an advocacy organization for gun ownership, but in reality a frontline, ultra-influential lobbying organization for gun and ammunition manufacturers whose sole purpose is to limit or impede any regulation that would hinder the sale of weapons.

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As a gun owner myself knows, there is only [View all] mmonk Dec 2015 OP

Thank you safeinOhio Dec 2015 #1

It's both, a self centered fear. mmonk Dec 2015 #2

Nope Cartoonist Dec 2015 #3

So you believe money does not influence politics? mmonk Dec 2015 #5

Priorities Cartoonist Dec 2015 #7

Gun humpers don't make up the majority of the electorate d_legendary1 Dec 2015 #14

Single issue voters Cartoonist Dec 2015 #16

Yup bigwillq Dec 2015 #4

No. It's the people who think their hobby is worth a weekly massacre. Without them, Squinch Dec 2015 #6

and sensible health care madokie Dec 2015 #8

It's more a corrupt Congress standing in the way of gun regulation legislation meow2u3 Dec 2015 #9

More like a Congress that is bought & sold Martin Eden Dec 2015 #10

This would have gone a long way. cannabis_flower Dec 2015 #11

Congress is NOT chickenshit. Congress is doing an OUTSTANDING job... Raster Dec 2015 #12

You got it. We don't have much of a voice, anymore. raouldukelives Dec 2015 #13

I hear ya! d_legendary1 Dec 2015 #15