John Oliver lambastes lawmakers for continuing to block gun research as the bodies pile up
Describing the NRA as βlike PETA, but for guns, and effective,β Oliver explained how the gun organization keeps lawmakers in line, not only through contributions, but by effectively organizing their members to inundate their congressmen with phone calls demanding they do nothing about our porous gun laws.
βHere we are again,β Oliver stated. βAfter another mass shooting, with weak legislation doomed to failure. And there is clearly a disconnect between public opinion which favors, to varying degrees, a number of different gun control measures and any practical action in Washington.β