New legislation can help curb gun violence in the U.S.

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5. While NRA apologists

and gun huggers decry efforts by sincere Americans and Liberal thinking individuals to curb gun violence in this country as "wishful thinking," they will not impede the efforts of people like Gaby Giffords and her husband Mark Kelly.

The Second Amendment absolutists and their clones like to pretend that public opinion is not changing, and that more Americans are buying guns. More guns are being sold, but the gun huggers are just buying more. The average American gun-owning male now has an average of almost 8 guns in his arsenal. ( http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2013/01/pro-gun-myths-fact-check ) See Myth #9.

Just because a gun hugger states that that universal background checks "marginalize" certain segments of our society, does not make it true. Most Americans agree that these background checks are necessary. From the linked article: "Overall, polls show that a vast majority of Americans support universal background checks to stop felons, domestic abusers, the seriously mentally ill and other dangerous people from buying firearms."

The bottom line is that there are just too many guns in our society, and they are much too easy to get. The tide of public opinion is definitely turning in favor of reversing decades of corruption-for-profit brought about by the NRA, their apologists and supporters, and the gun manufacturer arms dealers and death merchants. The time is coming when an NRA "A" rating will hurt a politician politically, and identify them as corrupt.