Rothkopf: Mitch McConnell greater threat to U.S. than Kim Jong Un

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"The threat posed by Americans with guns is immeasurably and undeniably greater than the threat posed by North Korea will ever be," Rothkopf writes in a column published on Tuesday. "This is not a public safety issue. It is a national security issue. And the politicians using legislative tricks to do the bidding of special-interest groups -- the National Rifle Association spent some $3 million in 2012 on lobbying, according to the transparency website OpenSecrets.org -- are not protecting the rights of Americans: They are violating them in the grossest possible way."

Sen. McConnell announced this week that he would join a Republican filibuster of Sen. Harry Reid's latest gun-control legislation, which includes expanded background checks for gun sales, among other proposals. In his column, Rothkopf proposed that Reid should "call McConnell's bluff by following through on filibuster reform."

Rothkopf also faulted the television news media for obsessing over the North Korean threat while treating McConnell's move as "business as usual."

http://www.politico.com/blogs/media/2013/04/rothkopf-mitch-mcconnell-greater-threat-to-us-than-161320.html

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1. Well put. Thanks for posting.