Once again you 1) accuse me of ignoring the evidence, 2) yet don't provide the evidence that I asked for, just a lot of neat factoids about public opinion towards gun laws that don't necessarily prove that Congress is being bought off by the NRA, and 3) presuppose I hold certain opinions when really, I've said almost nothing to indicate my opinion on one side of this issue or the other.
You've already been provided with that evidence, though. You keep glossing over Vertigo's link showing NRA contributions to Congress, which spiked in 2013,
coincidentally around the same time background check legislation -- widely demanded by a majority of Americans following Sandy Hook -- failed to get off the ground. You've ignored this literally three times now. And you've ignored the point of those "neat factoids" I posted, which is that most people
do support moderate gun control legislation, so clearly Congressional inaction is not rooted in a lack of interest from their voters; just the opposite, their voters would very much like them to do the thing they're not doing at all!
So let's lay this out again: most Americans support some degree of gun control reform; Congress fails to enact any kind of gun control reform; the ATF has been hamstrung for years in what can do to enforce existing gun laws; and there is documented proof of NRA contributions and gun lobbying influence in Congress. And your takeaway is, "well the NRA doesn't seem to have anything to do with this"?
I don't need to presuppose anything, you've made your opinion abundantly clear with how willfully you ignore the situation.
I don't have time to debate someone who seems more interested in arguing from a place of anger towards gun fanatics (which I am not) than rational discourse, so I'm done here. But FYI, I have no idea what the "cable lobby" even is and I'm 100% supportive of a free, neutral, uncensored Internet.
lol, well I suppose that answers my next question.
And don't give me this shit about "arguing from a place of anger instead of rational discourse." There's no rational discourse to be had; when you have crazed gun owners who are so paranoid about the government taking away their rights and firearms, when you have people convinced that their right to bear arms will defend themselves against some inevitable tyrant, when you have people convinced that these mass shootings are false flag operations designed for eroding the 2nd Amendment, when you have people who look at worldwide statistics showing the correlation between stricter gun control laws and fewer gun deaths and then promptly ignore them, there's nothing rational about the conversation anymore. These lunatics are too divorced from reality to speak to rationally. And when there are mass shootings happening on a more than daily basis, and thousands of people are dying without a single peep from Congress, you better fucking believe you're going to have people speaking from a place of anger. That
should make you angry.
