Go Ahead Gun Lobby – Refute This
The
Washington Post reports on the unfunny, deliberately so, comments
of Jimmy Kimmel on the gun violence in Las Vegas. Here are some
excerpts.
The
Second Amendment, I guess, our forefathers wanted us to have AK-47s
is the argument, I assume. Orlando, Newtown, Aurora, San Bernardino,
every one of these shootings the murderer used automatic or
semiautomatic rifles, which are not weapons you use for self-defense.
They’re weapons designed to kill large numbers of people in the
shortest possible amount of time. And this guy, reportedly he had 10
of them in his room, apparently legally. At least some of them
were there legally. Why is that allowed? I don’t know why our
so-called leaders continue to allow this to happen. Or, better
question, why do we continue to let them allow it to happen?
Well we allow it to happen because a
group of people care so much about the false issue that the
government wants to take away all guns that they are willing to let
the public have any gun.
President
Trump is visiting Las Vegas on Wednesday, he spoke this morning, said
he’s praying for those who lost their lives. In February, he also
signed a bill that made it easier for people with severe mental
illness to buy guns legally. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell,
Speaker of the House Paul Ryan, a number of other lawmakers who won’t
do anything about this because the NRA has their balls in a money
clip, also sent their thoughts and their prayers today, which is
good. They should be praying. They should be praying for God to
forgive them for letting the gun lobby run this country, because it’s
so crazy.
And as we all know, the Congress is
debating a bill to allow silencers on guns and the gun lobby would
like to pass laws that make it much easier to buy armor piercing
bullets.
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