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kpete

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Thu Apr 18, 2013, 04:44 PM Apr 2013

NRA > 85% OF AMERICANS

NRA > 85% OF AMERICANS
http://thehill.com/homenews/senate/294571-senate-rejects-tougher-background-checks-on-gun-purchases


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WASHINGTON — It is an odd day to be looking out at Our Nation's Capital, cherry blossoms lost in the murk and the gloom, from the steps of the Senate side of the Capitol building. It has been an odd week in Our Nation's Capital. It has been a week in which the national government, responding to the will of practically nobody, has determined on its own that our society will tolerate a level of violence in it that is beyond the reach of the national government to do very much about. Moreover, it has been a week in which, by means subtle and overt, the national government has determined which types of violence our society must tolerate in order to remain the freest country in the world. It has done so quite on its own. It has done so against the expressed will of the vast majority of the people out in a country as expressed in the only way they can, now that elections have been determined to have very few real consequences in regard to the levels and types of violence that our society must tolerate in order to remain free. They have told the pollsters, over and over again, because, as far as the violence in America is concerned, the pollsters are the only people listening.

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NRA > 85% OF AMERICANS (Original Post) kpete Apr 2013 OP
They are a loud and obnoxious group, polluting morningfog Apr 2013 #1
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