As a gun owner myself knows, there is only

[mmonk]

one thing standing in the way of sensible gun regulation legislation: a chickenshit Congress. The same thing that stands in the way of sensible financial sector regulation.

[safeinOhio]

1. Thank you

Not sure if they are chickenshit or just bought and paid for. Either way they do stand in the way.

[mmonk]

2. It's both, a self centered fear.

[Cartoonist]

3. Nope

Gun lovers are to blame. Those chickenshit politicians would be nowhere without their votes.

[mmonk]

5. So you believe money does not influence politics?

For example, we used to have regulations we currently have been unable to reinstate.

[Cartoonist]

7. Priorities

Yes, money has an influence, but not on guns. You can take away a gun lover's freedom of speech, his health, and his job, but if you try to take his gun away, you've lost his vote.

[d_legendary1]

14. Gun humpers don't make up the majority of the electorate

According to the census bureau 41.9% of registered voters took part in the election process in 2014. I doubt all of those people were gun nuts.

[Cartoonist]

16. Single issue voters

Anti-abortionists
Fundamentalists
Gunners

The republicans have a lock on those groups. It's their base. None of them make up a majority, but together, they keep repubs in office.

If the Dems could get twenty or thirty percent of them, elections wouldn't be close.

[bigwillq]

4. Yup

[Squinch]

6. No. It's the people who think their hobby is worth a weekly massacre. Without them,

the NRA and gun lobbies would have no money to buy the politicians. It begins with you.

[madokie]

8. and sensible health care

[meow2u3]

9. It's more a corrupt Congress standing in the way of gun regulation legislation

than it is a chickenshit one. They're not chickenshit at all when it comes to taking rights away from women and health care away from millions of uninsured American; in fact, they're reckless in that regard. They know PBO won't sign bills repealing the ACA or defunding PP, yet they repeatedly pass those bills to send us a message they don't give a shit about the will of the people.

[Martin Eden]

10. More like a Congress that is bought & sold

especially on financial regulation

[cannabis_flower]

11. This would have gone a long way.

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=http://www.cnn.com/2015/12/02/politics/jay-dickey-gun-violence-research/&ved=0ahUKEwjwlIX5o8LJAhUIwWMKHbyWA1sQ-AsIHigBMAA&usg=AFQjCNHZOqkbK_heotk3frR_GI6ECB_eoA&sig2=H3pzd4z64BkvQIRD9fujIA

It has occurred to me that one thing they could do is get serious about investigating burglaries particularly when a gun is stolen. Most of the time the police show up and take a report and do jack shit more. We all know what happens to stolen guns.

[Raster]

12. Congress is NOT chickenshit. Congress is doing an OUTSTANDING job...

... serving the needs of their primary constituents. UNFORTUNATELY, that is not you or I. We just elect them, kind of. Congress serves other masters, those all powerful and immortal persons that pull the strings: corporations. And when it comes to guns and their regulation - or lack of - Congress answers to the NRA, ostensibly an advocacy organization for gun ownership, but in reality a frontline, ultra-influential lobbying organization for gun and ammunition manufacturers whose sole purpose is to limit or impede any regulation that would hinder the sale of weapons.

[raouldukelives]

13. You got it. We don't have much of a voice, anymore.

Unless of course one has investments in Wall St. Then one can claim to be a buttress to those standing firmly against democracy for all people and to do all they can to assist those assuring nothing ever gets better.

Not gun violence, not war, not climate change and certainly not justice for all. There are those who vote for conservatives and there are those who bankroll them. Yesterday, tomorrow, right now, our biggest obstacle is the latter.

[d_legendary1]

15. I hear ya!

And let me add sensible health care, sensible tax laws, and sensible trade laws to the list of things that should be regulated.