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billh58

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Thu Jan 25, 2018, 03:18 PM
Jan 2018
"Corporations and their politician allies voted behind closed doors through ALEC to change America's criminal justice system and enrich profits.

On the surface, many ALEC bills look like basic tough-on-crime legislation, but some corporate leaders of ALEC benefit financially from such legislation -- meaning that what has been sold to the public as good for public safety was often pushed by corporations that profit from such changes in the law, without politicians disclosing their corporate allies' financial interest to the public when such bills, pre-approved by the corporations, were introduced."


ALEC is made up of, and supported by, right-wing corporations such as the Koch Brothers. The NRA is a lobbying group for the gun manufacturers.

Sorry to rain on your pro-gun parade.

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