If i would believe in God, I would say bless this post.

Been stationed there and unfortunately among all the service branches the culture of the Marine Corps tends to be the least, shall we say, progressive? The Commandant of the Marine Corps (Conway) was the most vocal opponent of the repeal of DADT and open integration of gay service members, right now their brass are…

Well, yes and no. Some of these figures amount to 10 to 20% of the annual salary for a Congressman. The handout is more than the average American makes in a year, in many cases, and it’s only influential because the people receiving the money have so much unwarranted power over policy.

I have to be honest, some of the amounts donated by the NRA are SHOCKINGLY low in terms of buying policy. Over the weekend, https://twitter.com/igorvolsky was tweeting the amounts each Republican “thoughts and prayers” congressperson received from the NRA and some of them were like a couple thousand dollars.

When you’re in the pockets of the NRA, you can’t say anything about making it harder for religious extremists to get guns.

It’s a way for people to cop out of difficult conversations. Very common in Facebook: “stop politicizing a tragedy" etc.

It is precisely the government job to discuss what to do to prevent this in the future. Society can mourn but we pay those I tips with our hard earned tax dollars to do something about it. It’s their damn fucking job.

When are we going to pass a federal anti-corruption act and get lobbyists’ money out of politics?

Seriously, this dicks sure love to recommend that we all pray.

Maybe this is a stupid question, but why shouldn’t we be talking about gun control when something like this happens? Is it somehow outlandish for a government to look at a tragedy and think “how can I stop this from happening in the future?”

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