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We will stop
referring to ourselves as a "civil rights" organization that defends
"human rights." It is a sacrilege to people actually killed or harmed
by civil and human rights abuses.
We will acknowledge that
our membership of 4 million is dwarfed in both size and sympathy by 6.2 million
teachers, 76.6 million students and 18 million healthcare workers in the US
living with our depraved gun policies.
We will stop our Black
Hand, horse-head-in-the-bed bully tactics against lawmakers. Congress has
figured out we are all hat and no horse and lawmakers now fear the gunmen our
policies arm more than us, starting with Jared Loughner who shot Congresswoman
Gabby Giffords.
We will admit we have made background checks a joke. Mass shooters Seung-Hui Cho (Virginia Tech), Stephen Phillip Kazmierczak (Northern Illinois University), Sulejman Talovic (Trolley Square mall), Vincent J. Dortch (Philadelphia Naval Shipyard), Jiverly Voong (Binghamton), Richard Poplawski, (Pittsburgh police killer), Bruce Pardo (Santa Claus killer), Latina Williams (Louisiana Technical College) and Jennifer Sanmarco (Goleta postal facility) sailed through background checks. So did James Holmes who shot 70 in an Aurora movie theater.
We declare that the
"gun show loophole" is actually gigantic and that such private sales
amount to 40 percent of US guns sales. Yes, almost half.
We regret our obstruction of "one firearm a month" laws to stop straw buyers. Thanks to our obstruction, convicted felon William Spengler, who killed his own grandmother, waltzed into a Gander Mountain in Henrietta, NY and chose the murder weapons with which he killed fire fighters on Christmas Eve. A straw buyer was at his side.
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