Michael Hiltzik: 'Thoughts and prayers' and fistfuls of NRA money: Why America can't control guns (A grim update)
by Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times
Feb 15, 2018
3 minutes
"Today is that terrible day you pray never comes," Sen. Marco Rubio, Republican of Florida, tweeted Wednesday minutes after a former student opened fire at a high school in his home state, killing 17.
We'll assume Rubio's grief is genuine. But we wonder if, when he's at home at night, he's comforted by the thought that he's one of the golden boys of the National Rifle Association. Over his legislative career, Rubio has been the beneficiary of $3,303,355 in campaign spending by the NRA. That haul places him sixth among current
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