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In reply to the discussion: Republicans Allow Potential Terrorist Buy Guns Legally?!?! [View all]CajunBlazer
(5,648 posts)I am a pragmatist, and a realist, not a heads in the clouds idealist.
Like a stopped clock, occasionally even W and the Republicans in Congress got something right. If you think the list denies people of due process, challenge it in court.
But Republicans in congress are owned by the NRA, but they are eventually going to lose.
Already 92% of voters, including 92% of gun owners and 89% of the Republicans, say they favor background checks on every gun sale. And with every major shooting - whether it is some crazy person or terrorists pulling the triggers - pressure mounts to pass "sensible" gun control legislation. Sooner or later your Republicans friends in Congress will feel more pressure from their constituents than they feel from the NRA and they will eventually fold or lose their seats. Count on it.
Unfortunately, sooner or later we are all going to feel the sting of one of these mass shooting attacks executed with legally obtained weapons. Already the town where I was born, Lafayette, Louisiana, had a movie theater shot up with an AR-15 - three innocent lives snuffed out - nine seriously wounded and it could have been much worse. It was a lightly attended movie. The shooter was from Alabama and "just passing through". Trust me when multiple deaths come to a place near you, you take on a whole new prospective.