If you live in South Dakota, register and vote on November 8: you can call to account Senator John Thune, who has taken more than $600,000 from the Gun Lobby. After the horrific massacres in Uvalde, Texas, and Buffalo, New York, last May, Senator Thune sat on the fence before the passage, within a few weeks, of the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act. He told the New York Times, “I think there’s a time and place to have those conversations; we’ll see where they go.” The most significant piece of gun reform legislation in nearly 30 years passed in June, and Senator Thune voted against it.
Gun manufacturers and marketers, and their lobbyists, have a lock on the votes and power of nearly 40 U.S. Senators in Washington.
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 (or longer).
Don't stand on the sidelines November 8. Take a stand for the lives of our school children and vote against Senator Thune. Tell your friends, too.
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