Long story short: tell your Congressfolk to repeal the so-called Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act, pass the Supreme Court Ethics and Investigations Act, and make sure they fully fund our IRS. Use the tools in the upper right-hand corner of this page (or, if you're on a cellphone, the bottom of this page) to find your Congressfolk's phone numbers and/or use the email/petition tools in the following paragraphs.
Moms Rising helps you tell your Congressfolk to repeal the so-called Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act, a law that basically shields the entire gun industry from lawsuits, including those that might find gun-manufacturing corporations liable for enabling the daily mass murders we suffer as a nation. There are other reasons we suffer daily mass murders, of course – not least of them wall-to-wall sensationalist media coverage of banal mass murderers and their “motives” – but what other industry gets this kind of legal immunity? Imagine big polluters demanding, and getting, this kind of immunity. Why, we’d never drink clean water again! And given that guns tend to end lives, there’s even more at stake here.
Patriotic Millionaires helps you tell your Congressfolk to pass the Supreme Court and Ethics Investigations Act, which establish an Office of Investigative Counsel that would specifically look into ethics complaints against Supreme Court Justices. Maybe with this bunch that seems like a heavy lift! But Congressfolk face the threat of ethics investigations when they screw up, and Executive branch workers face the threat of Inspectors General when they screw up, so it’s a bit of a head-scratcher that we let Supreme Court Justices off so easy, especially with all the gifts Justice Thomas finally copped to receiving. So let’s make sure they don’t get off so easy.
Finally, Patriotic Millionaires also helps you tell your Congressfolk to fully fund our Internal Revenue Service (or IRS) so they can go after rich tax cheats. Republicans unsuccessfully tried to convince good Americans that giving our IRS more money would result in more working families getting investigated, but fact is our IRS was only investigating working families, because working families can’t hire big-money lawyers like rich folks can. It’s more than a little like saying what happened to Donald Trump can happen to you, when what happened to Donald Trump always happens to folks who can’t hire big-money lawyers. So let’s keep our IRS working for us.
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