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Old 01-10-2015, 21:55   #7
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Re: 10 dead, 20 wounded in mass shooting at Oregon community college

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Originally Posted by Hom3r View Post
To be honest is this a UK news story?

I mean can we go to our local Asda buy nappies, 1 military grade assault rifle, 1 desert eagle hand gun and enough ammo to last the apocalypse?

The trouble is the biggest fund in the democrats & republicans come from the NRA, so guess what chance you have of gun laws changing.
Not the biggest funders, and the NRA spend much more for the Republicans and against the Democrats by a factor of 600 and 100...

https://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/sum...?id=D000000082

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CONTRIBUTIONS
$984,152
ranks 289 of 16,872

LOBBYING
$3,360,000 (2014)
$3,410,000 (2013)
ranks 151 of 4,070 in 2014

OUTSIDE SPENDING
$28,212,718
ranks 10 of 186
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For Democrats: $24,262
Against Democrats: $15,200,018
For Republicans: $10,823,998
Against Republicans: $92,034
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