Also disarm the police that kill mass cilvians for their form of sport.
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Now here's a slogan worth using:
"We need more than "thoughts and prayers," we need a vote on gun control."
Although I'd write it:
"We need more than "thoughts and prayers," we need an end to violence."
Perhaps one way to reduce NRA's powerful hold on Congress, would be to un-elect
every congressional member who supports Violence and the Right To Kill.
In fact, isn't it time we became serious and looked closely at what we call,
"Sport"? Pointing a rifle or shotgun at some unarmed deer or pheasant, is not
Sport. Unless you believe that guys knocking the crap out of one another in a
boxing ring is also Sport.
Why is it that American Football is this nations most popular sport?
The only major sport in which the ball is not the objective, but rather, the
person in possession of the ball. So in this Peace Loving Nation, sports are
defined as activities that pit armed humans against defenseless creatures, or
Humans attacking other Humans in violent manner.
My mother would not allow guns or toy guns in our house, so we used sticks and
our fingers to represent guns. She would not allow violent comic books in our
house. But she did let us read Bugs Bunny, Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck, Porky
Pig and Elmer Fudd. Cute little cartoon characters committing some of the most
God Awful Violence imaginable.
My most favorite cartoon was The Road Runner. What fun to watch old wily
coyote get his comeuppance. Around the bend of the road he would charge, right
into the path of the fast moving semi truck.
Slap-stick films were built on the prat fall. What fun to see the old fat lady
trip and tumble down the stairs.
Anyway, my point is that violence is ingrained in our way of life.
Yes, shutting down the impact of the NRA is one piece of turning toward Peace
as a solution, but it is only one small piece. The biggest challenge is
whether or not we have the guts and the staying power to resist violence at all
levels.
Carl Jarvis
On 10/8/15, Miriam Vieni <miriamvieni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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Subject: Sign the petition: Congress and the NRA
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Stop the NRA
Each time there's a mass shooting, many pro-NRA members of Congress
offer their "thoughts and prayers" to the friends and families of the victim.
They
respond to the tragedy while it's in the news but never make any
sincere effort to enact systemic reform.
Americans are ready for a change. They are ready to implement
commonsense gun control regulations that save lives.1 Unfortunately,
the Republican politicians who control Congress are only ready for
business as usual. They are so beholden to the National Rifle
Association that they block any reforms from even coming up for debate, much
less a vote.
It's time for Congress to consider a meaningful package of gun control
reforms, including an assault weapons ban and universal background
checks, but breaking the NRA's chokehold on Congress will require
massive amounts of grassroots pressure. Politicians are accustomed to
getting away with giving the NRA their votes while offering the
families of the victims of gun violence nothing more than tweets about
"thoughts and prayers." These politicians will have to feel enormous
pressure from hundreds of thousands of people demanding a change if
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with action, not just "thoughts and prayers," and bring real gun
control legislation to the floor for a vote. Click here to sign the
petition.
There are range of gun control reforms that would make a real
difference in reducing gun violence and making Americans safer -
requiring universal background checks including closing the gun show
loophole, banning assault weapons and high capacity magazines, and
ending legal protections currently given to gun makers.
The NRA and its backers in Congress know that a real conversation
about gun violence in America would lead to real change. It's why they
go to such extreme lengths to stop that conversation from happening.
Now is the time to pressure Republican leaders in Congress to
follow-up their thoughts and prayers with legislative action.
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h> Tell Republican leaders in Congress: It's time to vote on gun
control legislation now. Click here to sign the petition.
Instead of taking action to protect Americans from gun violence, the
only action Congressional Republican leadership has taken is to
protect their friends in the NRA.
In 2004, Congress let the ban on assault weapons and high-capacity
magazines sunset. In 2005, Congress passed a law that gave gun makers
and gun dealers a powerful protection that most other industries don't
have - immunity from liability for crimes committed with their
weapons. For nearly 20 years, NRA lobbyists have worked with pro-NRA
politicians to ban the Centers for Disease Control from funding
research on gun violence. The NRA's lobbying has also banned the
Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms from releasing crime-gun trace
data to researchers and academics, keeping them away from valuable
data that could help us understand and prevent gun violence.2
We've had enough of a Congress beholden to the NRA. Demand that
Republicans who run Congress bring a real gun control package to the floor
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Thanks for helping to break the NRA's chokehold on Congress.
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New Way to Tackle Gun Deaths," Nicholas Kristof, New York Times, 10/3/2015.
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First Post-Charleston Gun Vote, Congress Preserves CDC Research Ban,"
Jennifer Mascia, The Trace, 06/24/2015.
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