COWARDS IN HIGH PLACES

The Rev. Dana Prom Smith, S.T.D., Ph.D. (4/27/2013)

 

          One of the Senators who voted against the bill to tighten background checks on gun buyers said that he admired the courage of the parents of children killed in SAndy Hook massacre.  He himself could not muster the courage to vote for it because he was afraid.  Afraid of what?  The National Rifle Association and particularly, its mouthpiece, Wayne La Pierre. 

 

          When politicians are afraid of something, it generally means that they are afraid of losing financial support which means that they are not only cowards, but craven cowards.  Now, the odd thing is that most members of the NRA are proponents of stricter background checks so the Senators weren’t afraid of the NRA, but of the money the moguls in the NRA may not throw they way.  And who finances the NRA?  The gun manufacturers?

 

          Now, mind you, the gun manufacturers aren’t making single shot weapons but weapons of mass destruction.  So it turns out that the Senators are afraid of sociopaths who manufacture weapons of mass destruction.  Our newest Senator, Jeff Flake, made like he supported the bill to enhance background checks and then voted against it.  The word is duplicitous.

 

          The Senators who voted “nay” were, in fact, voting to support capitalistic sociopaths who make weapons of mass destruction.  The only appropriate response of a citizen to this betrayal of victims of mass slaughter is a Contempt of Congress.  Adding to their shame is the weasily way they try to cover their cowardice with cries of defending the Second Amendment as though their betrayal were an act of patriotism.