Just so horrible and sad about the mass shooting in Las Vegas. We need to make a change for stricter gun control laws.
beeishappy:
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beeishappy:
via http://gleekto.tumblr.com/post/166010572700Corden | Meyers | Kimmel | Colbert | Conan
Link: http://www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-fi-hiltzik-nra-money-20171003-story.htmlLos Angeles Times wrote:
Column 'Thoughts and prayers' -- and fistfuls of NRA money: Why American can't control guns
October 3, 2017
There is no better example of the corrosive effect of money on American politics than the spending of the National Rifle Assn.
The gun rights organization spent a stupendous $54.4 million in the 2016 election cycle, almost all of it in “independent expenditures,” meaning spending for or against a candidate but not a direct contribution to a campaign. The money went almost entirely to Republicans to a degree that almost looks like a misprint (but isn’t): Of independent expenditures totaling $52.6 million, Democrats received $265.
If you’re looking for a reason that politicians are quick to declare that their “thoughts and prayers” are with the victims of the horrific slaughters that have become virtually routine in American life, but do nothing further to stop them, look no further.
The Center for Responsive Politics has compiled the baleful figures on the NRA’s election spending for its Open Secrets website. A spreadsheet showing totals spent on behalf of individual members of Congress through 2016 is here; the center is working to update the figures, and we will publish them once it does. The Washington Post has an interactive web page showing NRA contributions since 1998 to current members of Congress.
As the Center for Responsive Politics observes, the recipients of NRA largess almost always let their pocketbooks do the voting for them. The NRA endowed the 54 senators who voted in 2015 against a measure prohibiting people on the government’s terrorist watch list from buying guns with $37 million in support; only one Democrat voted against the measure — Sen. Heidi Heitkamp of North Dakota, who has never received NRA support.
The NRA also gave $27 million in direct and indirect support to 50 senators who voted against a bill to require universal background checks for firearms purchases (with Heitkamp again the only Democrat voting no).
To find out which of your U.S. Congress persons has received donations from the NRA, go to this site:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/national/nra-donations/
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To see which U.S. Senators received donations from the NRA in the 2016 election cycle, go here:
https://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/recips.php?id=D000000082&chamber=S&party=R&cycle=2016&state=&sort=A
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