I’m so tired of being told how great this country is, and then watching as our democratically-elected representatives—you know, those people we send to Congress because we here in America have the best form of government ever devised by man!—refuse to do anything about one of the most basic problems in our country: guns.If we’re so great then why do we tolerate it when a bunch of spineless, mouth-breathing idiots disregard the will of 92% of the people, and vote against gun control measures as the NRA races to stuff their pockets with money? Are these cowards the sort of people James Madison had in mind as Senators when he was writing the Constitution?If Second Amendment fetishists can claim to know that Madison intended to protect their right to own super duper mega shoot ‘em up guns, then I can claim that he surely didn’t intend for any of these Cro-Magnon doofuses to hold elected office, permitting them to make decisions that kill innocent people.Is there any institution more shameful than the United States Senate? Has any governing body so resolutely refused to act in the face of such a dire need to act than this body? Has any group of people ever so blatantly chosen money over honor or re-election over duty?In case you didn’t know, the Senate on Monday failed to pass a number of amendments intended to help prevent gun violence. This disgusting inaction isn’t surprising to anyone who has followed Congressional response to mass shootings in the past. After twenty children were gunned down in their school Congress didn’t act. Why should we think they’d act now?
One of the amendments defeated was proposed by Dianne Feinstein, a Democrat from California. She had the radical liberal idea of permitting the attorney general to deny firearms or explosives to any suspected terrorists. That seems like a pretty simple idea to me. Terrorists want to kill people. Maybe we should make it harder for them to get the stuff they use to kill people.Nope.Fifty-three idiots in the Senate thought this was a bad idea. This included Marco Rubio, a Senator from Florida, in whose home state 49 people were just murdered by a suspected terrorist who legally purchased his weapons! Good lord, do these assholes shutoff their brains before they enter the Senate chamber?Some Republicans argued that Feinstein’s amendment didn’t do enough to protect people who were mistakenly put on terrorist watch lists, or were linked to terror groups by mistake. Yes, Republicans are worried about such a thing the day after their own presidential nominee suggested that we should start profiling Muslims as a way to fight terror.Just to be clear, Republicans support profiling people as terrorists based on their religion, but are worried that we may take guns away from innocent terrorists.Abe Lincoln is rolling over in his grave in Springfield at the realization of what these fuckfaces are doing to his party!Senator Chris Murphy is from Connecticut, so he’s familiar with gun violence. He proposed requiring a background check for almost every gun sale, including those sold online or at gun shows.You’re smart. You read this blog. So I know what you’re thinking, “Why don’t we already require background checks for every gun sale?”I don’t know. Maybe because we’re a couple hundred years behind the rest of the world on the gun violence issue. Maybe because money runs our political system and the NRA has plenty to spend. Maybe because of an epidemic history of Senators born without spines.But Murphy provided a chance to right this wrong. To do something that makes sense, that 85% of Americans want.And the Senate couldn’t pass it. Not only couldn’t they get the 60 votes required to pass, they couldn’t even get a majority. 56-44 in favor of rejection. A handful of misguided Democrats even voted against it.So if you’re crazy, or a criminal, or a terrorist, or just a guy having a bad day, go on over to a gun show and get yourself a gun. No one will ask any questions except whether you’ll be paying cash, check or charge. And then you can walk out with a firearm.And go kill people. Lots of them.Our leaders are doing nothing about guns. They spew the same bullshit about the Second Amendment, and there being nothing we can do to stop it, and blaming mental health. We cannot accept their ineptitude. Their greed. Their selfishness. Their shortsightedness. Their idiocy.We must do better. They must do better. And if they won’t do better, then it’s up to us to find people who will do better and vote for them.Until then, I’d settle for every goddamn Senator who voted against gun violence prevention measures on Monday to be required to explain their vote to a relative from Sandy Hook, or Columbine, or Aurora, or Orlando, or whatever city is next in this godforsaken merry go round of insanity.Is this really the best this country can do?Enter your e-mail below for more Dry it in the Water posts!
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