Last week, I wrote about how there are certain knuckle-dragging, reactionary Republicans that claim moral superiority to Democrats all the while they don't give a damn if Americans who want,
need health insurance, can't get health insurance. They feel that way even when Americans died from lack of health insurance!
The tragedy in Florida is another reason (a better Reason) why reactionary Republicans who only base their vote on a politician's pro-life stance have an e
xtremely hollow argument!
Sure we care about the helpless fetus and unborn who dies at the hands of the terrible so-called Dr. who commits an abortion. But we don't care and don't want any type of legislation that would limit to the slightest degree guns. NOT EVEN ASSAULT WEAPONS!
Now here is where I have contempt for Republicans claiming moral superiority over Democrats. Republicans and other "gun-nuts" forget about the Assault Weapons Ban passed in September, 1994. There was a law passed under the Clinton Administration that barred assault weapons. NRA and their supports and
cretin cohort would have the populace, particularly citizens of the South, believing that if they were to ban assault weapons,
THEN the US will pass weapons on handguns, rifles and possibly even BB guns.
Did that happen after 1994?
NO
After the Assault Weapons Ban, was there any effort by the majority of Congress to even ban an average handgun? No, again.
So while the NRA has the South and morons who choose to vote for pro-gun, anti-restriction-of-guns legislators, we keep winding up with tragedies in schools, in malls and at concerts like the ones in Las Vegas last fall. President Obama called the morning after the Sandy Hook gun tragedy the "worst day of my presidency."
INDEED!
A majority of Americans want a ban on assault weapons but this timid Congress led by Speaker of the House "shame of Janesville" Paul Ryan won't pass a restriction on Assault Weapons Ban.
Wow............just let the killings continue all in the name of American Exceptionalism, rights of people w/ guns and just conveniently ignore the fact that Canada and Western Europe doesn't deal with tragedies with the regularity that American citizens DO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
& those people still wonder why I'm the "family liberal".