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With a Rethuglican-controlled Senate firmly in the NRA's pocket, along with sociopath and pathological liar Donald "Rump" Trump in the Oval Office, major gun safety legislation passed in the House last February by the Dems languishes on immoral weasel Sen. "Moscow Mitch" McConnell's desk. In the year before LaPierre's raise in salary, the U.S. suffered the highest rate of gun deaths in 20 years, with some 39,773 deaths. So in that ugly and perverse sense, LaPierre earned his blood money.