Tea Party Senator: Keeping Guns From ‘Demented Individuals’ Will ‘Restrict Our Freedoms’

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37. The level of acceptance of people being slaughtered is depressing

It's outrageous that somebody can carry around an AR-15 rifle, much less walk into a crowded theater and open fire. What about the people killed in that theaters freedom to simply live. Is that somehow a lesser freedom than the right to own a fancy weapon?

But like every other issue in American politics, it's about the money. As long as our election system is dictated by the raising and expenditure of cold hard cash, groups with a financial interest and the money to expend to protect that interest (in this particular case the NRA) we will see those well moneyed groups imposed their will on the balance of society because elected officials need their money and advertising assistance more than they need to enact sound policy in order to retain their positions.