Politicians will pay for siding with NRA

[SecularMotion]

A year ago Thursday, the United States Senate failed us.

It was last April — mere months after the senseless slaughter of 20 children at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn. — that a minority of senators blocked legislation that would have made it harder for criminals and people with dangerous mental illnesses to get their hands on deadly firearms.

Given the opportunity to stand up to the gun lobby by supporting legislation favored by two-thirds of Americans, these senators did what all politicians do when they fear upsetting powerful interests: They voted for the status quo.

These were some of the same senators who had sat across the table from the grieving parents of children massacred at Sandy Hook or who looked me in the eye as I told them what it is like to learn to walk and talk again after a bullet from a madman’s gun nearly took my life.

http://www.indystar.com/story/opinion/2014/04/18/gabby-giffords-politicians-will-pay-siding-nra/7888477/

[Jenoch]

1. What is your opinion on the topic you introduced on this DU thread?

[ManiacJoe]

2. Typical opinion piece: lots of fluff but not much substance.

[blueridge3210]

3. The article or the poster? (NT)

[ManiacJoe]

4. Not my intent, but I will take the 2-for-1.

[Duckhunter935]

5. no comments from you

Shocking, care to comment on the piece?

[SQUEE]

6. Those senators, like you

Believed you had the only view point, didn't care how your beliefs were received, were not interested in dialog, and blamed everyone else when your bridge to far remained standing.
UBC would have passed, but there was, and is, no consensus on an AWB, Feinstein and her followers knew there was no chance of passage, and chose to still pursue it. I was behind a discussion of moving to a true, and accessible UBC system, I had my reservations, and registration was one, but no one on your side cared to discuss it, to work or compromise, you thought you had your perfect storm and paraded grieving families before the world, and lost... YOUR fault, and if , IF every thing you say you want is truly to help stop the violence, if background checks are effective, and will stop or even slow the violence, then you are letting people die, and they continue, not one of those deaths is the result of a gun in my safe.

[hack89]

7. The most powerful politician in Rhode Island has an A rating from the NRA

he is the Democratic Speaker of the House, Nicholas Mattiello. He supports unions, gay marriage, the ACA, medical marijuana, strong environmental laws - and is endorsed by the NRA with an A+ rating.

I don't think he will be punished at all.

[Nuclear Unicorn]

8. I see a poorly drawn Hanna-Barbera villain shaking his fist and vowing, "You'll pay for this!"

[beevul]

10. In a mumbling way...

[Jenoch]

9. Be careful what you wish for.

Harry Reid was one of those senators to block that bill.

[hack89]

11. "Just you wait" - the motto of gun grabbers for 20 years and counting. nt

[DonP]

12. We seem to hear this every election year

No sweeping changes when it's all said and done, an NRA supported candidate here or there may lose. (Lately it seems to be Dems that Bloomberg doesn't like, like Debbie Halvorsen in my district or three in Colorado) But it seems more local people supported seem to win than lose.

[appal_jack]

13. A whole SpeculativeOcean of flimsy reasoning. nt.