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TheMastersNemesis

(10,602 posts)
Fri May 18, 2018, 08:07 PM May 2018

The Truth. GOP Does Not Care Because No One Important To Them Has Been Lost To Gun Violence.

The GOP will never do anything about gun violence. If anything they support the end of gun free zones and support open carry anything anywhere with NO restrictions OF ANY KIND. And this reality is where we are. As far as the GOP is concerned this kind of violence only happens to other. People who who are really not important or significant or does not do anything FOR THEM politically.

After all they shed crocodile tears for Gabby Gifford. They shed crocodile tears for the victims. SO NOTHING WILL EVER BE DONE EVER.

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The Truth. GOP Does Not Care Because No One Important To Them Has Been Lost To Gun Violence. (Original Post) TheMastersNemesis May 2018 OP
The truth!!! Wellstone ruled May 2018 #1
Scalise Got Shot Leith May 2018 #2
Scalise Is A Relatively Minor Member Of Congress. He Survived & Is Totally Pro NRA. TheMastersNemesis May 2018 #4
Scalise's daughter being shot handmade34 May 2018 #5
Yes....this. Not sure WTF it's gonna take, but sadly we ain't there yet. nt Kirk Lover May 2018 #6
When nothing changed after Sandy Hook... cynatnite May 2018 #3
I don't think most of them would change RockRaven May 2018 #7
They wouldn't care even then... First Speaker May 2018 #8

Leith

(7,813 posts)
2. Scalise Got Shot
Fri May 18, 2018, 08:19 PM
May 2018

He almost died.

And nothing was done.

Scalise openly declared his support for the second amendment.

Money and votes mean more to them than lives - even their own lives.

 

TheMastersNemesis

(10,602 posts)
4. Scalise Is A Relatively Minor Member Of Congress. He Survived & Is Totally Pro NRA.
Fri May 18, 2018, 08:34 PM
May 2018

The assassination attempt was the only time the GOP got serious about gun control. A small caliber hand gun was used yet they banned assault weapons. Now assault weapons are being used and we cannot a thing done federally. If the GOP could pass totally open carry in Congress they would.

cynatnite

(31,011 posts)
3. When nothing changed after Sandy Hook...
Fri May 18, 2018, 08:24 PM
May 2018

I knew nothing would change.

Parkland, I've got some hope. I still have hope after today.

This gun violence is not only killing our children, it's also turning the survivors into leaders who might be able to turn the tide of this horror.

I've got to hold onto hope.

RockRaven

(15,006 posts)
7. I don't think most of them would change
Fri May 18, 2018, 08:48 PM
May 2018

even if their family members were killed. Think about how craven and immoral you would have to be to hold the position they do today, and ask would even losing family members make a difference in the face of such degeneracy.

These people don't change their position on abortion when their mistresses need, and get, one.

The inconsistency doesn't bother them because they only hold that position on this issue in the first place because of what it means for money and votes. It's a cynical political calculation from the start. As long as the money and votes aren't changing, their position won't.

First Speaker

(4,858 posts)
8. They wouldn't care even then...
Fri May 18, 2018, 08:57 PM
May 2018

...between greed and ideological armor, they will *never* take any action on guns. Never in a hundred years.

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