Part 2: An NRA Lobbyist, A Domestic Terrorist, And 53 Republican Senators Walk Into A Bar...

[billh58]

In Part I of this series published in December, 2015 immediately following the San Bernardino killing of 14 people by an ISIS-inspired husband and wife team, I made the obvious point that the slaughter was merely the first act of domestic terrorism against civilians on American soil by less than a handful of “lone wolves.” Many more were certain to follow. Tragically, we’ve now had our second—the worst in American history—early Sunday morning, with at least 50 dead in a gay Orlando nightclub at the hands of an America-born Muslim claiming ties to ISIS.

In the decades long struggle by the NRA to prevent any infringement whatsoever on the purchase of all firearms by absolutely anyone who wants one, including assault rifles that belong only on the battlefield, San Bernardino marked the very first instance of unfettered acquisition of assault weaponry by home-grown terrorists. In the wake of that tragedy, the Democrats immediately put forth a bill in the Senate calling for the prevention of individuals from buying guns who were identified as terrorists on the so-called Terrorist Watch, many of whom were on the No-Fly list preventing them from boarding planes.

The rationale of the bill suggested that anyone who was identified by the FBI as too potentially dangerous to fly should not be allowed to purchase a firearm. The bill required 60 votes to pass. It was rejected by 53 republicans and one democrat, with 44 democratic senators and only one republican (Mark Kirk of Illinois) voting in favor of the prohibition. Republican spokesman, Senator John Cornyn, in a titanic stretch to justify the refusal to make it harder for suspected terrorists to have legal access to assault weaponry, weakly offered that it would be unfair for the innocents on the list to have their Second Amendment rights abridged, displaying no reservations whatsoever about the green light this would give to budding terrorists on the list.

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As I stated in the earlier piece, we have crossed a terrible threshold in which our insanely easy access to military-style weaponry not only makes it possible for murderers, lunatics, and gang members to arm themselves. By buying off corrupt politicians, the NRA’s accomplishments now allow home-grown terrorists the same access. It is not a matter of “ if” but “when” the next American lone wolf terrorist attack occurs—and the next and the next and the next.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/michael-j-tansey/part-2-an-nra-lobbyist-a-_b_10467562.html

The right-wing gun culture, spurred on by its gun manufacturer lobbying organization, the NRA/ILA, is the root cause of the gun violence epidemic, and domestic terrorism in this country. We must destroy the NRA's stranglehold on the corrupt politicians at all levels of this nation's government, and replace them with Democrats who can't be bought.

[flamin lib]

1. To this point the NRA has spent more than $20 million on political ads against Hillary Clinton.

Hey have also targeted a number of down ballot Republicans for monetary support.

So, how wise is this expenditure?

This could be the year that the myth of NRA supremacy is exploded. We just may break the back of the gun lobby.