Gunman opens fire at Garden State Plaza in Paramus, NJ

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39. The answer is actually

simple: the NRA pimps the Second Amendment to its customers (and its pitiful handful of members) for profits and right-wing political power. Neoconservative organizations, and wealthy ultra-conservatives (i.e. the Koch Brothers) fund the NRA's political clout, and they have become so powerful that even "Liberal" politicians cower in their presence. We see it everyday here on DU: "support for gun control will cost us elections," say the NRA apologists. The real truth is that the NRA and its right-wing politicians use gun control as a fear tactic, and millions of dollars in blood money, to steal elections.

The NRA's fear machine has been using the same propaganda since its formation: "they're coming to get your guns!" That mantra is widely believed even though no concerted effort by any US government to "confiscate" guns has ever taken place (cue hair-on-fire gun cultists for isolated anecdotes). The United States of America has more guns per capita than any other civilized country in the world. Certain types of weapons have been, and are, banned in the interest of public safety, but that is not "confiscation" (except to an extremist). NRA apologists and cold-dead-hands gun worshipers have repeated this bogus battle cry so long, and so often that not only the skin heads and KKK believe it, but so do millions of otherwise sane Americans.

The NRA, like their extreme right-wing sponsors, is the real cabal of organized criminals who promote the gun violence epidemic that plagues this country. And the sad part is that they promote gun violence and needless death simply for profits and political power.