Re: It really is stunning
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yet five million NRA members can hold 350 million hostages just to get what THEY want. A majority of Americans are for stricter gun control, background checks, mental heath screening.
The heart of the problem is that congressional districts are now so gerrymandered that the primary threat to a sitting congress critter is not the opposing party, but his/her own party.
Suppose a republican congresscritter makes a speach advocating some sort of gun control.
You can be sure that the NRA et al will be calling every republican voter in the district to support their candidate to unseat the current guy.
and its usually the dedicated political people who vote in the primaries that throw out the reasonable candidates and replace them with idiots like..... trump for example
"A well regulated milita" well they had a supreme court ruling that the militia is the citzens of the USA, so lets do the first 3 words....