AMERICAN GUN LOBBY IS SIMPLY AS MAD AS A CUT SNAKE

Concerning the latest mass shooting in the United States.

The National Rifle Association and just about every Republican Party politician in the USA are once again showing immense idiocy, immense idiocy in the aftermath of yet another mass shooting, by denying that the country has a major problem with guns.

Nine harmless and armless parishioners at a church in Charleston, South Carolina were gunned down by some 21 year old lunatic named Dylann Roof. A deranged lunatic who very likely would never have been in possession of the gun which he used to mow them down had the US already gone down the path of gun law reform.

The NRA is not only holding President Obama and the US Congress to ransom by wielding its almighty lobbyist power to thwart any progress towards gun law reforms materializing but the whole country and its 320 million citizens as well.

Common sense regarding the desperate need for gun law reform in the United States to prevent any more mass shootings and to rein in homicidal gun crime in general is not very common at all within NRA and Republican Party ranks.

In fact it's non existent. The ruthless, desensitized rednecks who control the NRA are using some antiquated passage in the US constitution, known as the 2nd amendment, which upholds the rights of 'any' US citizen to possess firearms, as a tool of propaganda to impede any gun law reforms.

There is no rationale whatsoever from these goons to make any distinction between decent, law abiding citizens who might want to own a gun purely for self defence, if it's sadly ever required, and mentally disturbed and psychotic individuals like Dylann Roof.

Going back 18 months or so ago, when there was 'another mass shooting' in the US, and I attempted to promote the idea or concept of implementing gun law reforms in the US on Twitter I was set upon by the most ruthless and downright abusive trolls imaginable, all of them 'hired guns' for the NRA.

Scary to think this quasi-mafia controls America more than Congress. 'Conservative' prime minister John Howard in 1996, just weeks after being elected as PM, showed true political fortitude and guts to instigate gun law reforms in Australia after the Port Arthur massacre.

The 'guns buyback program' made him a lot of enemies within the gun lobby here, but it was the responsible and statesman like thing to do, for the greater good of the population.

John Boehner's pro-gun Republicans in the United States need to adopt John Howard's 1996 strategy, and ditch the NRA forthwith. Sadly, there is fat chance of that ever happening while rednecks hold the country to ransom on the gun law reform issue.