Right-wing: Regulating Gun Rights -- Bad; Regulating Voting Rights -- Good.
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"It so happens that two man-made controversies have burst onto the national stage at about the same time. Republican-controlled state legislatures are doing whatever they can to restrict the right to vote, while at the same time right-wing politicians, in state and national government, are resisting background checks and limitations on weapons' destructive power.
There have been more than 3,700 gun-related deaths since the Sandy Hook massacre, and the right-wing appears hell-bent-for-leather to block any regulation of firearms. By contrast, between 2000-2010 there were 13 cases of voter fraud among 649,000,000 voters cast. Yet, consider the political firepower directed at "solving" this non-existent problem.
The juxtaposition becomes even more telling when one considers that gun regulations that the right-wing resists are designed to reduce the number of deaths whereas the voting rights regulations they seek to impose would reduce the number of votes, mostly from people of color.
So, for the right-wing, shooting must be protected from any restrictions. Voting, however, must be as restricted as possible. Background checks to purchase a gun are required only at gun stores; there are no checks at gun shows where 40 percent of the guns are sold. That would be similar to requiring voters to be registered to vote in person, but not if you are voting by mail, or where only 60 percent of the voting sites required ID. No one would even consider such a patchwork system for voting."
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/paul-abrams/rightwing-regulating-gun-_b_3094424.html
The NRA, ALEC, and the Koch Brothers have bought and paid for politicians at all levels of our government -- from city councils to the Congress -- and they are laughing all the way to the bank. While they work very hard to disenfranchise Liberal voters, they work just as hard to enable gun violence and vigilantism on our streets for pure profit.
The sad part is, that their rhetoric and vile propaganda has been repeated so often that many otherwise intelligent and sane Americans have begun to believe the lies and repeat them at every opportunity.
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