Open Thread Feb. 27: GOP’s Embrace of NRA Will Prove Deadly
America’s mass shootings only seem to occur like clockwork. The truth is that three of the deadliest mass shootings in American history have taken place in the past five months. Damon Linker at The Week wonder whether the GOP’s refusal to abandon the NRA will be the undoing of their criminal enterprise political party. Just remember, the majority of gun deaths in this country are suicides. If they didn’t have bullets where their brains should be, Republicans would take that to heart.
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Nah. Most of the country knows the NRA is not the problem
Then why is the NRA hiding in its bunkers and peeing its pants?
@Ays “Nah. Most of the country knows the NRA is not the problem”
And if that were really true, then how do you explain this?
http://www.latimes.com/science/sciencenow/la-sci-sn-nra-convention-gun-injuries-20180228-story.html
“When NRA members attend their convention, ER doctors see fewer patients with gun injuries, study says”
The NRA is the problem!
Indeed, the best estimate on the annual cost to American hospitals to treat gunshot wounds is $2.8 billions a year. Of course, that’s just one study — because the industry successfully lobbied to bar federal funding for gun studies.
Now why do you think they might want to go and do a thing like that?