It needs to stop

[billh58]

5. You, of course, are entitled to your opinion

but I totally disagree with your reasoning. I would rather have a politician at least talk about gun violence, than one who just ignores the epidemic or agrees with the ALEC/NRA right-wing gun lobby and claims that there is no gun problem whatsoever.

For a politician to even include the gun violence problem in their campaign material takes a tremendous amount of courage in today's ALEC/NRA dominated landscape. I will always support a politician who has courage and is willing to take on the gun lobby.

And, for what it's worth, Ted Deutch is only asking for people to sign his petition in his stand against gun violence in this promotion -- not money. Like all politicians, however, he does ask for political donations on his web site.

You sound like a hard line "my way or the highway" voter who will refuse to vote for any candidate who doesn't meet your purity standards. You are a part of the problem, and not a part of the solution. The ALEC/NRA right-wing gun lobby has had decades to "politicize" the deaths of thousands of Americans every year, and has paid for influence all the way to the SCOTUS. It will take many more politicians like Ted Deutch a few more years to begin to reverse the gun violence epidemic the gun lobby has unleashed.