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billh58

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1. Conspicuously absent...
Thu Jan 23, 2014, 06:17 PM
Jan 2014

"Conspicuously absent from the daytime dramas created from these disastrous events is any extended coverage of what guns were used and the process by which they were obtained."

These are the same pieces of information that Second Amendment absolutists do not want to discuss, or even allow the CDC to track. Using this information to identify types of guns used in crimes, and where they were obtained is one of the keys to framing targeted legislation aimed at reducing gun violence in this nation.

ALEC, the Koch Brothers, the NRA, and the Republican Party will not allow rational information gathering about guns by the government to interfere with the unfettered proliferation of guns, and the blood money to be made from their "guns as the only means to combat gun violence" campaign.

As Deep Throat said in All The President's Men, "follow the money." And then, follow the guns...

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Conspicuously absent... billh58 Jan 2014 #1
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