Lawmakers who shun gun reforms must go

History will show that in the face of mounting deaths from semi-automatics, Tennessee’s state and national legislators did nothing. We ask for reasonable gun control and they accuse us of wanting to repeal the Second Amendment. They take money from the gun lobby and claim to not be influenced. Yet they mouth NRA phrases like “banning assault rifles is unconstitutional” and “gun legislation won’t work.” They feign helplessness to do anything to protect our school children and communities.

Our elected leaders are working hard to create the illusion that they care for the people’s welfare. But we see through it. With each mass shooting their corruption becomes more and more indefensible and plain to see. As the brave students in Parkland, Fla., have shown, NRA-backed legislators pretend to wear the mantle of the people’s champion, while in

fact they have no clothes. They stand naked in their fraud, exposed as shameful cowards unwilling to stand up to the NRA or give up the cash it pays them to do their bidding. As Judas betrayed Jesus for 30 pieces of silver, so have our legislators betrayed the people. Their crime is immense. They must go.

Tom May Ooltewah