POWERFUL! "Waist Deep in the Big Bloody: It's the NRA's Country, We're Just Dying in It" (Gun Control)

[DeepModem Mom]

....Without even looking I knew that the conversation on Wednesday would immediately turn to anything besides the fact that we have too many guns in this country and that we will NEVER EVER do anything about it.

So I checked out for the day because life is too short — not that being outside and in the wrong place at the wrong time when stray bullets are flying doesn’t increase the odds of making it even shorter.

The shooting in Virginia wasn’t about mental health or about race, sexuality, imagined slights, or #BlackLivesMatter. It was more proof that we live in an a culture of death by gunshot wound and the fact that these shooting tragedies keep happening because we always end up looking the other way. One or two news-cycles later we’re already shrugging our shoulders and giving up until the next shooting after which we repeat the process of hopeless acceptance all over again. Why? Because there are no adults in this country willing to stand up to the cynical self-serving grifters who manipulate incredibly stupid people into a paranoid Congressional-office-calling mob while, at the same time, emptying out their wallets in the name of protecting “freedom.”

By the way, freedom isn’t “just another word for nothing left to lose” if you are a gun manufacturer. Congress made sure that gun manufacturers can’t lose when someone takes their products — designed to kill — and puts them to use. There is no sweeter deal on Earth than that, I can guarantee you.

That’s because a fat check (the carrot) or the the threat of being primaried (the stick) can make almost any politician roll over on their back and piddle on their belly on command. The death of someone else’s child by a maniac or some buffoon “cleaning his gun” the next house over is a small price to pay when another two years in the House of Representatives is at stake. Better to issue a statement saying “my prayers are with the families” over this “tragedy” than initiate a search for your soul....

http://www.rawstory.com/2015/08/waist-deep-in-the-big-bloody-its-the-nras-country-were-just-dying-in-it/ via Raw Story

[flamin lib]

1. Gun violence costs US tax payers $260 billion a year.

There are 123 million households in the US. If the cost of gun violence could be reduced by half the conservative Republican congress could give every household a $1000 tax refund. They don't seem to respond to human death, grief or suffering so maybe we can convince them to respond with a tax cut by reducing the carnage.

It's worth a try, nothing else works.

[DeepModem Mom]

2. Well, that's an idea, flamin lib! Worth a try. n/t