Courtesy of Pam Martens.
It’s not every day that you wake up to an American newspaper cover like the one shown here from the New York Daily News today. The 96-year old newspaper is expressing its outrage at conservative Republicans who repeatedly invoke God and prayer following mass shootings instead of standing up to the National Rifle Association (NRA) and outlawing assault rifles and high-capacity magazines like the ones used yesterday at a county facility in San Bernardino, California where 14 people were killed and 17 injured.
According to the newspaper, the U.S. is “now populated with more firearms than people” and has experienced “355 mass shootings so far this year” – more than the number of days elapsed.
Today’s editorial at the New York Daily News explains the simmering anger that was expressed earlier yesterday in other publications and across Twitter after conservative Republican candidates offered up the standard platitudes and prayer instead of calling for action on assault rifles. The editorial noted:
“…let’s be blunt, Republicans in Congress — are surrendering. They are saluting the flag of the National Rifle Association.
“In thrall to this flag, lawmakers fail to even permit discussion of a bill to subject suspected terrorists to background checks for firearms purchases.
“In thrall to this flag, they let guns enter the hands of the mentally deranged.
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