Receipts on NRA's Purchase of GOP Lawmakers - 'Inaction Is Bought' - The Cash $$$ Totals

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- A young girl cries outside the Willie de Leon Civic Center, where grief counseling will be offered after 19 students and 2 teachers were slaughtered at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas on May 24, 2022.
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- 'Inaction Is Bought': Here Are the Receipts on NRA's Purchase of GOP. Common Dreams, May 25, 2022. -Ed.
- "The issue is money in politics," said Nina Turner after the nation's latest mass killing of students & teachers. Right-wing lawmakers are "allowing children to die because of the gun lobby." -

In the wake of the harrowing massacre at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas on Tuesday, progressive stalwart Nina Turner focused her ire on the right-wing lawmakers who take money from the National Rifle Association & argued that solutions to gun violence & other injustices plaguing the U.S. will continue to prove elusive until the role of big money in politics is confronted. "The issue is money in politics," Turner, a former OH state senator & co-chair of Sen. Bernie Sanders' (I-Vt.) 2020 presidential campaign, wrote on social media. "They're allowing children to die because of the gun lobby. They're allowing the planet to die because of Big Oil. They're allowing people to go without healthcare & die because of the insurance lobby."

"Inaction is bought," she continued. "Whatever issue you care about, whatever issue you fight for, the roadblocks to progress are always put up by big money. If we're going to talk about how to stop mass shootings, we have to talk about big money in politics & the role it plays." No shortage of congressional Republicans took to Twitter on Tuesday to offer their proverbial "thoughts & prayers" after 19 children & 2 teachers were fatally gunned down in a classroom located in a predominantly Latino town 80 miles west of San Antonio. But when a dozen GOP senators & one ex-senator claimed to be shocked & devastated by the latest mass murder to take place in one of the nation's schools, author Bess Kalb documented how much money they have accepted from the NRA.

Among others, Kalb's spotlight on the glaring discrepancy between expressing condolences & raking in cash from a notorious pro-gun group that has lobbied aggressively to prevent common-sense safety reforms shone on: Sen. Minority Leader Mitch McConnell of KY, former U.S. senator & recently defeated gubernatorial candidate David Perdue of GA, & Sen. Ted Cruz of TX who is scheduled to speak at an NRA meeting in Houston later this week. "Did the NRA send out a message with the words 'horrifying & heartbreaking' yesterday or did its top paid politicians all coincidentally use the exact same language?" Kalb asked.

* There have been more than 3,500 mass shootings in the U.S. since the 2012 Sandy Hook Elem. School massacre in Newtown, CT. Over the past decade, Congress has repeatedly failed to pass legislation to meaningfully reform the nation's gun laws, thanks in large part to the opposition of GOP lawmakers bankrolled by the NRA.
- Below is a collection of Republicans' statements of concern, which Kalb juxtaposed with their NRA cash totals, in descending order:

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- More, https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/05/25/inaction-bought-here-are-receipts-nras-purchase-gop

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1. Kickin' with DISGUST

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2. Mass corruption, greed, misery & death destroying our youth, democracy & nation.

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3. Hat Tip, Daily Kos:

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4. Kick

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5. Perfect. And cartoons on the idea of arming teachers..