"1. Congressional refusal to pass campaign finance reform legislation to prevent elections from being dominated by special interests, like the National Rifle Association, and U.S. politics from being dominated by vitriolic diatribes between politicians and pundits aimed at raising special interest campaign funds and inflaming and dividing the electorate in order to win elections;
2. Congress’s legislative agenda which puts the interests of special interest campaign funders, like the National Rifle Association, ahead of the safety and welfare of their constituents, such as by allowing ordinary citizens to carry assault weapons;
3. The rigging of elections by the Democratic and Republican parties via the gerrymandering of Congressional election districts to create artificial party majorities that deny voters a real choice of candidates and lead to the re-election of major party incumbents backed by special interest campaign financiers;
4. Democratic and Republican-inspired state election laws that prevent third parties and their candidates from contesting the monopoly of elections they have attained through gerrymandering election districts and campaign finance laws;"
The Giffords assassination attempt was Congress' fault because they didn't pass campaign finance reform last session and gerrymandering? Seriously? Sounds like you're using the tragedy to further your own political agenda.
