Today, in Congress, the GOP won't even allow votes to go forward. That is oppression. That is denying the people of the USA their freedom of speech.
The GOP has no real function in government, they have gerrymandered the country into dysfunction. Now, we can't even get from point A to point B. This is not democracy, it is oppression of the electorate.
7/24/2012 @ 7:51AM
...The billionaire I used to work for, (click here) Michael Bloomberg, was right, when he called the two presidential candidates on the carpet for their failure to say anything beyond meaningless expressions of sympathy for the families of the shooting victims. Bloomberg pointed out that both candidates have, in the past, expressed support for banning assault weapons. Yet neither has stepped forward to say anything concrete about the issue since the shooting last week. Obama’s staff is no doubt afraid any comment he does make will reignite the furor that erupted in 2008 when he was taped talking about how frustrated white working-class voters “cling to their guns and religion.” And Romney doesn’t want to do anything to alienate conservative, white-male voters who he needs at the polls in large numbers.
Here’s how I see it: gun violence is a public health issue, and a big one. In the 10 years from 2000 through 2009, more than 298,000 people died from gunshots in the U.S., about 30,000 people a year. If you exclude natural causes of death and consider only deaths caused by injury, it is the second-leading cause of death over that time span; only car accidents (417,000) killed more people. (These numbers come from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.)...
