Executive Vice President of the NRA Wayne LaPierre

We are now at a place in America where every year marks a new mass shooting milestone of being the "deadliest" in our nation's history. Last year, it was the Pulse Nightclub tragedy in Florida, today it’s Las Vegas, and who knows where the next "deadliest" shooting will break out. As the body count has tragically risen year after year, the National Rifle Association has invested tens of millions of dollars (if not hundreds of millions) into electing Republicans who won't touch gun safety measures and planting doubt in the minds of Americans that passing gun safety laws will actually make us safer.

It's time to ask the NRA: Where's your proof that loosening gun restrictions, chipping away at background checks, blocking magazine limits and safety mechanisms, and advancing concealed carry, open carry and stand your ground laws has done anything but result in horrific mass shooting after horrific mass shooting?

Ever since Al Gore lost the 2000 election and the conventional wisdom wrongly faulted his stance on gun safety as a contributing factor, the NRA has been pushing federal laws ever closer toward their goal of making gun measures so lax that any person can get any kind of gun at any given time without restriction. Their mantra is: “The only way to stop a bad guy with a gun is with a good guy with a gun.”

Where's the proof, NRA? Because our nation has a shit ton of supposed "good guys" with guns (we account for about 4.4 percent of the world's population and 42 percent of the world’s civilian-owned guns) and yet the bad guys keep mowing people down with deadlier results year by year.