| Soundwave said:
NRA owns politicians via payoffs, so basically nothing will be ever done, even when there is broad consensus among Democrats and even Republican voters on several common sense gun restrictions (like not allowing mentally ill people to gain access to guns among several other restrictions). Just gotta get used to it happening every 6-18 months. |
Define "mentally ill" please. Is a person with an austistic spectrum disorder mentally ill? Is a person with mild depression mentally ill? Is a person with ADHD mentally ill? The problem with the polls that say there is a broad consensus, is that they are vague and general. Sure, everyone wants to prevent "mentally ill" people from having access to guns, but nobody knows how to do it better than we currently are doing it while respecting people's rights. It isn't that clear cut. Stephen Paddock probably passed as normal and there was no reason to suspect him to be "mentally ill." We don't even know if he was mentally ill or just had a brain injury or a personality disorder. Things that are just harder to detect.
The silly crap about the NRA paying off politicians is more narrative than fact. The NRA has more power by rating politicians than paying them. Why? Because private gun-ownership supporters are more enthusiastic than gun-control advocates and vote on this issue more than anything else. For gun control advocates, this is another issue among many, and rarely is it their priority. The organizations that support gun-control are all funded by control-freak billionaires like Bloomberg too, as if Americans trust plutocrats. The whole movement is astroturf activism not grassroots.
