The money behind the gun madness: BIG BUCKS ARE BEING MADE WITH LAX GUN LAWS.

http://www.alternet.org/tea-party-and-right/money-behind-gun-madness?akid=11866.294211.SzahdO&rd=1&src=newsletter998135&t=7

Charlie Pierce, prodigious political blogger over at Esquire magazine put it well: “This is a country at war with itself for profit. This is a country at war with itself because its ruling elite is too cowed, or too well-bribed, or too cowardly to recognize that there are people who are getting rich arming both sides, because the only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun, so you make sure that it’s easy for the bad guys to get guns in order to make millions selling the guns to the good guys.”

You’ve no doubt heard that this doesn’t happen in countries like Japan, Australia, the United Kingdom and Canada where the gun rules are strict and lives are saved. But here the cycle of death, denial, resistance and madness goes on. Leave it to The Onion, the satirical news site, to speak the truth. Its headline, after the heartbreak in Santa Barbara:  "No Way to Prevent This,’ Says Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens.”