Originally Posted by bcredliner

About 139 million voted in the last election. There are somewhere around 55 million adult gun owners. About 5 million of those are NRA members. The candidates for office that are endorsed by the NRA highly influences the vote of all gun owners. Gun owners have taken the stand that any new gun control law is going to result in the government taking away their guns. To get the votes many candidates support no changes to gun laws. It's about votes, in many cases common sense or any consideration there might be a problem never enters into the equation, just votes. It's shameful.