When it comes to guns, J’Accuse

In America, aiding and abetting a crime — no matter how slight that help may have been — will get that person arrested and charged.

For example, if you loan your car and it is used in a crime, you are likely to be charged if you knew the car was even potentially part of the crime’s equipment. Furthermore, there’s another criminal statute called the RICO Statute (Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act) that allows law enforcement to reach into organized, far reaching, criminal assistance and facilitators.

Given the laws already on the books, I would like to see people investigated and charged under the RICO Statute with aiding and abetting murder — whether they obstruct the passage of life-saving laws, lean on parliamentary procedure to avoid even open debate in chamber or openly refuse to consider any restriction of gun common-sense laws.

Therefore, I accuse these senators for stopping any vote on gun control, taking thousands of dollars from the gun industry and having culpability in the continuing deaths in our schools, churches, supermarkets, concerts, movie theaters and homes:

John Barrasso (R) Wyoming

Marsha Blackburn (R) Tennessee

Roy Blunt (R) Missouri

John Boozman (R) Arkansas

Mike Braun (R) Indiana

Richard Burr (R) North Carolina

Shelley Moore Capito (R) West Virginia

Bill Cassidy (R) Louisiana

Susan Collins (R) Maine

John Cornyn (R) Texas

Tom Cotton (R) Arkansas

Kevin Cramer (R) North Dakota

Mike Crapo (R) Idaho

Ted Cruz (R) Texas

Steve Daines (R) Montana

Joni Ernst (R) Iowa

Deb Fischer (R) Nebraska

Lindsey Graham (R) South Carolina

Chuck Grassley (R) Iowa

Bill Hagerty (R) Tennessee

Josh Hawley (R) Missouri

John Hoeven (R) North Dakota

Cindy Hyde-Smith (R) Mississippi

Jim Inhofe (R) Oklahoma

Ronald Johnson (R) Wisconsin

John Kennedy (R) Louisiana

Angus King (I) Maine

James Lankford (R) Oklahoma

Mike Lee (R) Utah

Cynthia Lummis (R) Wyoming

Joe Manchin (D) West Virginia

Roger Marshall (R) Kansas

Catherine Cortez Mastro (D) Nevada

Mitch McConnell (R) Kentucky

Jerry Moran (R) Kansas

Lisa Murkowski (R) Alaska

Rand Paul (R) Kentucky

Rob Portman (R) Ohio

Jim Risch (R) Idaho

Mitt Romney (R) Utah

Mike Rounds (R) South Dakota

Marco Rubio (R) Florida

Ben Sasse (R) Nebraska

Rick Scott (R) Florida

Richard Shelby (R) Alabama

Kyrsten Sinema (D) Arizona

Daniel S. Sullivan (R) Alaska

Jon Tester (D) Montana

John Thune (R) South Dakota

Thom Tillis (R) North Carolina

Pat Toomey (R) Pennsylvania

Tommy Tuberville (R) Alabama

Roger Wicker (R) Mississippi

Todd Young (R) Indiana

How crazy are these politicians? Gov. Greg Abbott of Texas on Twitter, “embarrassed” that Texas wasn’t the No. 1 gun purchasing state: “Let’s pick up the pace Texans.”

 

Peter Riva, a former resident of Amenia Union, now resides in New Mexico.

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