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kpete

(71,981 posts) Fri Jun 17, 2016, 09:47 AM Jun 2016

49 people were murdered in Orlando. 50 senators voted against expanded background checks.

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49 people were murdered in Orlando. 50 senators voted against expanded background checks. (Original Post) kpete Jun 2016 OP

One can't help but wonder what would have happened if... Binkie The Clown Jun 2016 #1

Congress has an entire law enforcement agency whose job it is to protect them oberliner Jun 2016 #2

Binkie The Clown

(7,911 posts)

1. One can't help but wonder what would have happened if...

Reply to kpete (Original post)

Fri Jun 17, 2016, 01:01 PM

Jun 2016

...a crazed gunman had done the same thing in the halls of congress itself.

Maybe if the mayhem had been closer to home they might have taken it seriously. It's just too easy to dismiss a tragedy that happens to "other people".

oberliner

(58,724 posts)

2. Congress has an entire law enforcement agency whose job it is to protect them