If you are a person of conscience, you must acknowledge that
the recent and ongoing violence in America—involving police, suicides, domestic
violence and accidental deaths—are consequences of our American gun culture.
You must also acknowledge that the Republican approach to gun legislation makes
you culpable in all of this violence.
America has a shameful record of gun violence in comparison
to other first world nations. What must other nations think of us when they see
a citizen legally carrying an assault rifle in the environs of the RNC
convention in a potentially volatile
circumstance.
Your approach to gun legislation and your narrow view of the
Second Amendment essentially imply that we are a country of citizens who fear
one another and fear our own government, the very one you are a significant
part of.
The time has come for you to get out from under the thumb of
the NRA, to stop letting them buy you off, and to start truly representing the
American people. It’s time for courage and integrity.
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