If you live in Louisiana, register and vote on November 8: you can call to account Senator John Neely Kennedy who opposes every reasonable provision of gun safety protecting children. Publisher Tom Aswell says Louisiana’s one-term Senator Kennedy takes marching orders from the gun lobby, opposes stronger background checks for firearms ownership, and insists it is never time to discuss ways to curb the number of mass shootings in America. “Love is the answer,” Senator Kennedy has laughed, “but you oughta own a handgun, just in case.”Aswell continues: “Does Senator Kennedy not remember: Sandy Hook? Columbine? Aurora? Orlando? Las Vegas? San Bernardino? Chattanooga? Charleston? Oakland? Tucson? Blacksburg?”
Gun manufacturers and marketers, and their lobbyists, have a lock on the votes and power of nearly 40 U.S. Senators in Washington. The do-nothing attitudes of the gun lobby have resulted in one thing: more dead children.
But our U.S. Constitution requires, every two years, one-third of the 100 U.S. Senators to stand for re-election. One-third - that’s 33 Senators who have blocked every reasonable and legal way to keep guns out of the hands of killers. The reason the Constitution requires that is to give voters a voice – a voice to evaluate and comment on their senators’ work over the six years of their senatorial terms.
Don't stand on the sidelines November 8. Take a stand for the lives of our school children and vote against Senator John Neely Kennedy. Tell your friends, too.
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