Get Out of Facebook and Into the N.R.A.’s Face<br />But Republicans won’t back common-sense gun laws that would protect fully developed human beings — because the N. R.A.<br />energizes their base and funds their campaigns and ensures their $174,000-a-year jobs and free parking at Reagan National Airport.<br />lawmakers are mute on this because President Trump energizes their base<br />and ensures their $174,000-a-year jobs and free parking at Reagan National Airport.<br />Republicans did so because Trump energizes their base and ensures<br />that they keep their $174,000-a-year jobs and free parking at Reagan National Airport.<br />But, ultimately, nothing will change unless young and old who oppose the N. R.A.<br />run for office, vote, help someone vote, register someone to vote or help fund someone’s campaign — so we can threaten the same electoral pain as the National Rifle Association, which, according to PolitiFact, spent $203.2 million between 1998<br />and 2017 funding its candidates, defeating gun control advocates and lobbying.<br />The pay of a typical congressman is $174,000 — and free parking at Reagan National Airport —<br />and they will sell themselves to whoever can generate the votes to enable them to keep both.<br />lawmakers are alone at home contemplating the pictures of all these kids gunned down in Florida — thinking about what<br />it’d be like to be one of their parents — plenty of them probably feel filthy for doing the N. R.A.’s bidding.
