06-13-2016, 01:04 PM
Will the worst mass shooting in the country's history finally result in bi-partisan cooperation in better controlling gun access?
Doubtful, in my opinion.
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The NRA and its affiliate groups spent more than $27 million in outside expenditures (which includes super PACs and “dark money” funds given by non profits) during the 2014 election cycle.
When it comes to bankrolling candidates sympathetic to the gun lobby, candidate contributions from NRA-related PACs are 85 times larger than contributions from individual donors, according to the nonpartisan donations research group Open Secrets.
And while mass shootings shootings are regularly lamented as tragic events that demand change, they give a huge boost to the bottom line of gun and ammo manufacturers.
In a documentary released earlier this year, “Making a Killing: Guns, Greed, and the NRA,” filmmaker Robert Greenwald explores how the lucrative gun industry and the powerful gun lobby preserve profits by scuttling legislative efforts to address even the most common-sense gun law reforms.
“In any one of these tragedies, in any one of these incidents, take away the gun and look how different the situation is,” Greenwald previously told The Huffington Post.
Full story: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/poli...945fedffa0
Doubtful, in my opinion.
The NRA and its affiliate groups spent more than $27 million in outside expenditures (which includes super PACs and “dark money” funds given by non profits) during the 2014 election cycle.
When it comes to bankrolling candidates sympathetic to the gun lobby, candidate contributions from NRA-related PACs are 85 times larger than contributions from individual donors, according to the nonpartisan donations research group Open Secrets.
And while mass shootings shootings are regularly lamented as tragic events that demand change, they give a huge boost to the bottom line of gun and ammo manufacturers.
In a documentary released earlier this year, “Making a Killing: Guns, Greed, and the NRA,” filmmaker Robert Greenwald explores how the lucrative gun industry and the powerful gun lobby preserve profits by scuttling legislative efforts to address even the most common-sense gun law reforms.
“In any one of these tragedies, in any one of these incidents, take away the gun and look how different the situation is,” Greenwald previously told The Huffington Post.
Full story: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/poli...945fedffa0