https://billofrightsinstitute.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/The-Bill-of-Rights-for-Real-Life-Full-Text.pdf
since 1949 there have been 26 deadly mass shootings in the US with more than 500 dead and many more wounded, including:
- University of Texas tower shooting, 1966, Austin, Texas, 16 dead
- San Ysidro McDonald's massacre, 1984, San Diego, California, 21 dead
- Columbine High School massacre, 1999, Columbine, Colorado, 21 dead
- Virginia Tech shooting, 2007, Blacksburg, Virginia, 32 dead
- Fort Hood shooting, 2009, Killeen, Texas, 14 dead
- Aurora theater shooting, 2012, Aurora, Colorado, 12 dead
- Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, 2012, Newtown, Connecticut, 27 dead
- Washington Navy Yard shooting, 2013, Washington, D.C., 12 dead
- San Bernardino attack, 2015, San Bernardino, California, 14 dead
- Orlando nightclub shooting, 2016, Orlando, Florida, 49 dead
- Sutherland Springs church shooting, 2017, Sutherland Springs, Texas, 26 dead
- Las Vegas shooting, 2017, Paradise, Nevada, 58 dead (851 wounded)
- Santa Fe High School shooting, 2018, Santa Fe, Texas, 10 dead
- Pittsburgh synagogue shooting, 2018, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 11 dead
- Thousand Oaks shooting, 2018, Thousand Oaks, California, 12 dead
- Stoneman Douglas High School shooting, 2018, Parkland, Florida, 17 dead
- Virginia Beach shooting, 2019, Virginia Beach, Virginia, 12 dead
- El Paso Walmart shooting, 2019, El Paso, Texas, 22 dead
most of the perpetrators in these mass shootings used semi-automatic rifles and pistols--better known as assault weapons.
"Some studies indicate that the rate at which public mass shootings occur has tripled since 2011. Between 1982 and 2011, a mass shooting occurred roughly once every 200 days. However, between 2011 and 2014, that rate has accelerated greatly with at least one mass shooting occurring every 64 days in the United States. ... In recent years, the number of public mass shootings has increased substantially..."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_shootings_in_the_United_Statesquestion: if in 1939 in the united states v. presser, the SCOTUS upheld a federal law regulating sawed off shotguns, then why hasn't our government passed laws regulating assault weapons?
answer: clearly, our elected and non-elected representatives have failed us.
to fix our dysfunctional government is simple and easy--stop voting for republican and democratic party candidates, including incumbents.
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even with their billion dollar donors, if voters don't vote for republicans and democrats, then the republican and democratic parties will shrivel up and die.
once the republican and democratic parties are gone, and lobbyists are rendered powerless, then much-needed changes to the constitution can be made--like "no taxation without representation", a.k.a. powerful national politicians that 99+ percent of american voters didn't vote for (e.g., pelosi, mcconnell, republican and democratic party bosses, etc.).
in the next election--national, state or local--vote for your local (state/county) representatives. hopefully, some day, when the republican party, the democratic party, antiquated party rules and lobbyists are gone, and the constitution has been amended, then we'll ALL be able to vote for our national leaders.
once the republican and democratic parties are gone, and lobbyists are rendered powerless, then much-needed changes to the constitution can be made--like "no taxation without representation", a.k.a. powerful national politicians that 99+ percent of american voters didn't vote for (e.g., pelosi, mcconnell, republican and democratic party bosses, etc.).
in the next election--national, state or local--vote for your local (state/county) representatives. hopefully, some day, when the republican party, the democratic party, antiquated party rules and lobbyists are gone, and the constitution has been amended, then we'll ALL be able to vote for our national leaders.
nothing will be better for our country.
the same goes for the news media--stop patronizing biased news media that lobby for the republican and democratic parties instead of reporting the news factually and truthfully. they'll go out of business. nothing will be better for the USA.
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