Republicans Show Leadership on Gun Violence

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Tuesday October 06, 2015 · 9:51 PM PDT

2015/10/06 · 21:51

The current gaggle of Republican pretenders to the Presidency is using the issue of gun violence to showcase its leadership capabilities: shrug it off America because “stuff happens;” shrug it off America because people “fall through the cracks;” shrug it off America because nothing could possibly work. And after each and every shrug, they whine about politicizing the issue (nothing to see here, folks; move along now).

How many have to die before Republicans are too embarrassed to say things like “stuff happens?” Why can’t we try to narrow the cracks? How does anyone know what will or will not work when we’ve never tried more than piecemeal, watered down, compromised efforts. How can we know what would work when one side doesn’t want anything to work?

The real argument, the only argument, underlying all this leadership is that lives, lives of college students, lives of movie-goers, lives of first-graders, are not as important as the right of some inbred cracker to walk through a variety store with a loaded assault weapon slung over his shoulder (while holding a bag of cookies in a racist slur against the President of the United States). That’s just the way it is; there is nothing to be done; be quite; go away.

Worse, Republican leadership at the state level has us going in the exactly the wrong direction. Everywhere the Republicans are in control, they have gone out of their way, gleefully, in your face, to make guns more available to everyone (or, at least, to whites). They are facilitating mass murder.

The people behind all this leadership are the best they’ve got, the cream of Republican politicians. How sad for them, how lucky for the NRA, and how deadly and tragic for the rest of us.

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