Aren’t we all in danger of being complicit-throwing up our hands & allowing NRA to write gun laws?

[kpete]

The Gag Rule on Guns
POSTED BY E.J. DIONNE, JR.
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For all the dysfunction in our political system, a healthy pattern usually takes hold when a terrible tragedy seizes the nation’s attention.

Anyone who dares to say that an event such as the massacre at a Colorado movie theater early Friday morning demands that we rethink our approach to the regulation of firearms is accused of “exploiting” the deaths of innocent people.

This is part of the gun lobby’s rote response, and the rest of us allow it to work every time. Their goal is to block any conversation about how our nation’s gun laws, the most permissive in the industrialized world, increase the likelihood of mass killings of this sort.

So let’s ask ourselves: Aren’t we all in danger of being complicit in throwing up our hands and allowing the gun lobby to write our gun laws? Awful things happen, we mourn them, and then we shrug. And that’s why they keep happening.

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[elleng]

1. Yes,

and finacial mess, and climate change . . . .

[G_j]

2. knr

[madinmaryland]

3. The NRA won 20 or 30 years ago. We have been living through their disasterous rule of this country

ever since.

We threw up our arms 20 years ago and have allowed the NRA to right gun laws ever since. Had it not been for Reagan getting shot and his press secretary standing up for sensible gun laws, nothing would have ever gotten passed.

[Doctor_J]

4. yes, but, like every other issue, there is nothing to be done

democracy is dead as a door nail in the US. Oil & coal companies write the environmental regs, banksters write the financial regs, and so on. Our response is to post on DU or stand around getting pepper sprayed while some others sing Kumbaya.

[Electric Monk]

5. k&r