Republicans Are Complicit in the Mass Slaughter of Our Schoolchildren, and They Know It

If we want to gauge the intensity of the corruption that has such a stranglehold on the U.S. Congress, the best place to look is laws that would restrict the use of war weapons.

Yes, Big Oil owns the lawmakers who might otherwise favor phasing out fossil fuels in favor of renewable energy resources.  But one can at least imagine that at least some of these folks honestly believe that gasoline enables our energy independence, or some such.

Yes, Big Pharma and Insurance owns the lawmakers who might favor lowering drug prices, universal healthcare, etc. But one can at least imagine that these folks honestly believe that expensive drugs provide incentive for R&D that otherwise would not happen. 

Try as you might, however, you cannot imagine that limiting access to assault rifles will do nothing to deter the mass slaughter of our schoolchildren.

Not that I think Republican lawmakers deserve any sympathy, but realize this: each and every one of them knows, every minute of every day, that their cowardice is directly resulting in little kids’ faces being shot off.  They are killers, and that must be a fairly agonizing fact to live with.