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   XPost: talk.politics.guns   
   From: klausschadenfreude@yahoo.com   
      
   On Sat, 20 Apr 2013 23:47:47 +1000, keithr    
   wrote:   
      
   >On 20/04/2013 7:22 AM, Blowjob = Arrogance, Lies & Pretence wrote:   
   >> On 20/04/2013 7:06 AM, keithr wrote:   
   >>> On 20/04/2013 5:50 AM, RD Sandman wrote:   
   >>>> Trevor Wilson  wrote in   
   >>>> news:atc1j0F11bvU1@mid.individual.net:   
   >>>>   
   >>>>> On 4/19/2013 7:56 AM, Dechucka wrote:   
   >>>>>> .... something as simple as universal background checks couldn't be   
   >>>>>> passed. Maybe the US is just a sick and violent society   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> **Not so much. The US is saddled with a bunch of gutless politicians,   
   >>>>> who value the opinions of the NRA more than their constituents. The   
   >>>>> majority of Americans are probably disgusted with their elected   
   >>>>> senators. They need to be reminded of just how weak these creatures   
   >>>> are.   
   >>>>> They're not interested in the well-being of the American people.   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>   
   >>>> They are interested in re-election.   
   >>>>   
   >>> and are willing to put their own interests before those of the people   
   >>> who elected them.   
   >>   
   >> So according to your theory, elected officials should disregard the   
   >> wishes of those who elected them and do what they (or you?) regard to be   
   >> in peoples' interest?   
   >>   
   >>   
   >>   
   >Duh? What part of "Putting their own interests before those of the   
   >public do you not understand"   
      
   What interests might those be?   
      
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