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Inadequate response: America must really have something against kids. We are one of the biggest countries, but we run out of baby formula. Really? There’s only one baby formula factory? And innocent school kids are slaughtered — yes, slaughtered — and all we do is just keep pointing the finger at everyone else. We have huge anti-abortion marches, get in the faces of those going into clinics, etc., and call them murderers to their face. Yet where is that fight when innocents who are simply in school are slaughtered?
Relevancy questioned: Not being a historian myself, I’d like to know at what point in time the electoral college was ever relevant? And the same goes for the House of Representatives, where even a two-year term seems way too long!
Money controls guns: I want to make myself perfectly clear. If you have a gun legally in your household or have a permit to carry one for your protection, I am 100% in your corner. But we are holding the Second Amendment hostage because we are the only country that cannot control guns. Our lawmakers, namely the Republicans, keep passing the buck and not voting for any type of gun control. The gun lobbyists give millions of dollars to the Republican Party. So that leaves us with the bottom line, money talks.
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Deadly game of pinball: As long as the news people keep reporting that killings and shootings are going up, the gang-bangers try to break the record the following week. It’s a shooting game like a pinball machine. How high can you go?
Not a mental health issue: Shooters just don’t care about human life, yours mine or anyone else. It’s not mental health. They are just trying to find an excuse to blame it on people with mental health.
Cause and effect: Every time our government mentions the possibility of enacting more gun control, more guns are sold. More people conclude that our Founding Fathers were correct when they added the Second Amendment to our Constitution for protection from a tyrannical government.
Add this to the list: Jesse Sullivan says he will never apologize for his faith. Here is another thing he won’t do — become governor.