UPDATE: Good work! The Confederate Flag was removed from the South Carolina State Capital on July 10, 2015!
Republican presidential candidates and other FOXified right wingers are scrambling to sweep the political influences surrounding the tragedy that took place at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church under the rug.
Republican presidential candidates and other FOXified right wingers are scrambling to sweep the political influences surrounding the tragedy that took place at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church under the rug.
We have enough gun laws - Gun regulations
wouldn’t have prevented the tragedy - Racism isn’t the problem - It’s Obama’s
fault and on and on and on.
Here’s what the right gets wrong.
While some states have strong
firearms laws. Other states, including North
Carolina and South Carolina have weak gun laws.
According to the most recent
statistics published by the Law Center to
Prevent Gun Violence linked below…
Since Newtown, the states have
enacted 232 new firearms laws. Of these, 99 strengthen gun laws, 88 weaken
gun laws and 56 were “minimal”.
The Law Center further states
that the major positive changes took
place in CA, CT, CO, DE, IL, MA, MD, NJ, NY, and WA.
Guns Everywhere laws - in
churches, in schools, bars, college campuses, in airports etc. - were expanded in 12 states: AR. GA. ID. IN,
KS, LA, NC, ND, OK, SC, SD, TN
Laws stating that “schools can’t ask students and/or collect
data about gun ownership in the home” were legislated in ID, LA, SD, and TN
Stand your ground laws were expanded in 3 states: AK, GA, and FL. In 2014. Florida further expanded its stand your ground
laws to allow a person engaged in
criminal activity to use deadly force in the home or a vehicle!
Then there’s the political clout wielded
by the National Rifle Association.
The NRA is
opposed to virtually every form of gun regulation, including restrictions on
owning assault weapons, retention of databases of gun purchases, background
checks on purchasers at gun shows and changes in the registration of fire arms.
The NRA
influences who gets elected; what gun legislation gets blocked, and what gun
legislation they write. In their
2013-2014 spending cycle, the NRA spent $16, 151, 028 against Democratic
candidates at the state and congressional levels, and dished out $11,053,415
for Republican state and congressional candidates.
The NRA takes
care of their own. 18 out of 35 National Rifle
Association lobbyists in 2013-2014 have previously held government jobs.
The total contributions to
candidates from National Rifle Association PACs
supported by conservative Supreme Court justices’ Citizens United decision allowing corporations to control elections
and government, opened the doors for NRA contributions
to be 77 times larger than contributions from individuals.
More information on the above as
well as a list of Republican interest groups and
Republican congressional representatives which are the top recipients of NRA political contributions
are within the National Rifle Association
Summary link below)
When President Obama opened the
debate for gun control in 2013, Republican politicians
were missing from the debate. Amidst pressure from their NRA benefactors,
the US Senate rejected
legislation to expand gun background checks even though 90% of Americans
are for expanded gun background checks.
Next is the FOXified right wing’s misuse
of the 2nd Amendment to
justify unregulated gun controls.
“The 2nd
Amendment is a part of the Bill of Rights which is comprised of the first ten
amendments to the United States Constitution. The Bill of Rights were proposed and sent to
the states by the first session of the First Congress. They were ratified on December 15, 1791”. (constitution.laws.com)
The 2nd Amendment
reads as follows: “Well-regulated militia being necessary to the security
of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms shall not be
infringed.”
Article 2, Section 2, Clause 1
states: “The President shall be Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy of
the United States, and of the MILITIA of
the several states when called into the actual Service of the United States”!
So, until
President Obama calls on the NRA's Right Wing MILITIA to
enact guns everywhere, stand your ground,
no background check necessary, don’t ask, don’t tell fire arm actions, the "MILITIA's" misuse
of the 2nd Amendment to justify unregulated gun controls is a moot
point!
Finally, there's the Confederate flag on the grounds of the South Carolina
State Capital.
The Confederate
flag has been the rallying symbol of pro-slavery in the South since the
Civil War. If Governor Haley and her Republican-led state legislators were, sincere about
addressing the tragedy, they would sponsor legislation to remove their Confederate symbol for racism from
the State Capital grounds.
WE can make a
difference!
Petition! Contact! Vote!
(If any petition is closed, feel good. WE are
signing!)
petitions.moveon.org/sign/gun-control-now-1
https://www.change.org/.../united-states-congress-stand-up-ag...
https://www.change.org/p/stronger-gun-control-laws
MoveOn Petitions - Remove the Confederate Flag From All
...
petitions.moveon.org/sign/remove-the-confederate-3
Contact Governor Haley and South
Carolina legislators..
Tell them to remove their Confederate
symbol for racism from the State Capital.
index - S.C. Governor
Nikki R. Haley - Office of the Governor
www.governor.sc.gov/ContactUs/Pages/index.aspxGovernor Nikki R. Haley. Contact the Governor's Office.
Phone: 803.734.2100. Fax:
South
Carolina Legislature Online - Send Message
www.scstatehouse.gov/email.php?chamber=S
Speaker
John Boehner | Speaker.gov
Contact Republicans in Congress.
Tell them to pass meaningful background check legislation
Speaker
John Boehner | Speaker.gov
www.speaker.gov/
www.contactsenators.com/kentucky/mitch-mcconnell
Contact Republicans in Congress - GOP.govwww.gop.gov/republicans
Vote in every election.
Let the NRA know that they’re not the
only ones with political clout!
SOURCES
New laws since Newtown - Law Center to Prevent Gun ...
smartgunlaws.org/.../gun-laws.../ne...
National Rifle Assn: Summary | OpenSecrets
https://www.opensecrets.org/.../summary.p...
Second Amendment - Legal Information Institute
www.law.cornell.edu/wex/second_amendment
A Well Regulated Militia?
- God Sees You
www.godseesyou.com/2nd_well_regulated_militia.html
www.huffingtonpost.com/.../paul-broun-guns_n_55...
thehill.com/.../294571-senate-rejects-tougher-background-check...
www.forbes.com/.../nra-winning-the-influence-battle-over-gun-co...
www.usatoday.com/story/.../politics/.../nra-gun...laws/18337...
Sign The MoveOn.org
Petition To 'Remove The Confederate ...
www.thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/.../sign_the_move_on_petition_to...
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