The NRA Gave These 9 Senators Over $22 Million To Vote Down Gun Laws

[Electric Monk]

(cross-posted from Good Reads)

The NRA and their bought-and-paid-for Senators have blood on their hands.

How can not one, but three gun bills fail to pass after two horrific mass shootings in just one week? How can our GOP-run congress remain so cruelly indifferent to our grief and outrage? Since Adam Lanza gunned down 20 first graders, six teachers, and his own mother back in 2012, we’ve clamored for tougher gun laws. Alas, as my Reverb Press colleague Tina Praino aptly puts it, the GOP’s more afraid of the NRA than they are of angry voters or terrorists buying guns.

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Scott Bixby from Mic.Com took a long, hard look at the 50 U.S. Senators — one Democrat and 49 Republicans — who voted against a bill late Thursday evening that would have expanded background checks for guns bought at gun shows and through online vendors. He then pored over the data from the Center for Responsive Politics and came up with some interesting findings: Sens. Rand Paul (R-KY) and Heidi Heitkamp (D-ND) haven’t received a dime in campaign funds from the NRA directly or indirectly through PACs and other groups. But the other 48 Senators have raked in a staggering $27,205,245 — over $27 million dollars — from the NRA over the course of their careers.

To add insult to injury, the NRA spent $14,240,194 — over $14 million — on taking down candidates who oppose background checks. That’s right. Despite the fact that 90 percent of the American people and 74 percent of the NRA’s own members support universal background checks, the NRA spends millions on making sure we wind up with lawmakers who won’t vote for them. And this is just the tip of the iceberg…Imagine how much the NRA spends on all the other pro-gun politicians.

Nine senators alone received over $22 million from the NRA.

The lion’s share of these direct and indirect contributions from the NRA — a total of <strong>$22,596,399</strong> — went to just nine senators (for the breakdowns and list of NRA spending on all 48 senators, scroll down to the bottom).

Mitch McConnell (R-KY): $1,262,189
Roy Blunt (R-MO): $1,433,952
Pat Roberts (R-KS): $1,584,153
Tom Cotton (R-AR): $1,968,714
David Perdue (R-GA): $1,997,512
Bill Cassidy (R-LA): $2,867,074
Joni Ernst (R-IA): $3,124,773
Cory Gardner (R-CO): $3,939,199
Thom Tillis (R-NC): $4,418,833

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http://reverbpress.com/politics/nra-pays-senators-millions/

[Jerry442]

1. Has anyone ever published an article about where the NRA gets the money? nt

[babylonsister]

2. The gun industry, for starters...

http://www.businessinsider.com/gun-industry-funds-nra-2013-1

[jimmy the one]

3. Inside the NRA, armed & dangerous

jerry: Has anyone ever published an article about where the NRA gets the money?

See Jack Anderson's expose' book circa mid 1990's: Inside the NRA, Armed and Dangerous

NRA = Nutty Rightwingers Armed

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the front page calls Wayne Lapierre a “terrorist” and accuses the NRA of a “sick gun jihad against America in the name of profit.” The paper’s editorial, “Making Mass Murder Easy,” expands upon this notion of just how vulnerable the gun lobby has made US citizens.

This outrage from the Daily News comes after Republicans in the Senate today voted down a gun control measure which would have barred sales of guns to suspected domestic terrorists. While the vote was symbolic ― the voted down amendment was attached to a health care bill with no chance of passage ― it signaled that Republicans are willing to back the NRA at every deadly turn. Of course, this isn’t surprising, given that the NRA spent $34 million in 2014 to block all forms of gun control, including six- and seven-figures to many of those Republican senators who voted against gun control today,

It’s remarkable that the GOP seems to be supporting policies which one imagines ISIS would champion as well: 1) the rejection of Syrian refugees fleeing terror, and 2) the rejection of bills which restrict firearm access, even to domestic terrorists http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2015/12/3/1456666/-NY-Daily-News-calls-Wayne-Lapierre-a-terrorist-accuses-NRA-of-sick-gun-jihad-against-America?detail=email

[Jerry442]

4. TY nt