Kicking, simply because of the TOLL FREE Capitol Hill switchboard numbers in my sig line.

Use 'em! Weigh in. Let the Dems know you have their back! And if you have the misfortune to be "represented" by some CON, even better! They, too, need to know that they're on the wrong side here. They need to know there's a tsunami bearing down on them. Some of the Senate CONS who are up for reelection are already destabilized, like kirk, and ayotte, and are painfully aware that the tsunami may well wash their Senate seats away.

They're already feeling the hot gusts from a raging fire. (Hey, I could keep up with the metaphors all day!)

Congressional CONS need to hear this, too.

If they think you don't care, they won't, either!

Welcome to DU, nwlorax.

Many of us are searching for that Spirit, too. And not just right now, either.

SUPERB! Sure speaks for me.

Had enough YET, America???

And wasn't it Chris Rock who suggested that guns remain affordable, but

bullets cost $5000 EACH.

Oh, maybe a few minutes less than FOREVER!

There is NO justification for military-grade assault weapons to be in civilian hands. NONE.

I will NOT be ruled by paranoiacs. Seems to me that's NOT what our country is about. Or maybe more accurately - what it used to be about.

I'd suspect it's to get every last penny there is from every last sucker there is.

More like Piratization.

It's PIRACY. Pure and simple, and very nicely packaged, massaged, excused, and justified.

Btw - from what I've read, the infamous Powell Memo - the manifesto and road map for CONs written by Lewis Powell, as a guide to taking over the reins of power in America, was inspired by the wishes and worries of the US Chamber of Commerce.

http://reclaimdemocracy.org/powell_memo_lewis/

http://billmoyers.com/content/the-powell-memo-a-call-to-arms-for-corporations/

One of the commenters referred to Trump's "manservant" as

the Outlaw Jersey Whale!!!

THANK YOU.

I like to refer to assault rifles as Massacre Machines. That's what they ARE. Why such murder tools are so easily available to anybody and everybody is just beyond me.

To everyone who wants to pass around their thoughts and prayers -

I find that no consolation anymore.

I don't want anybody's "thoughts and prayers." I want SIGNATURES. On petitions. To revise the 2nd Amendment so as to prevent access to assault weapons. Okay, collect handguns if you must. (Personally, I just completely fail to see why anybody would feel compelled to do that.) But Honest-to-Pete! What On Earth does anybody really need with an assault weapon? I've heard all the explanations and excuses already. None suffices, or convinces.