Cowards and Traitors

I got one of those crazy ass right wing emails about the Senate voting down the U.N. treaty on international gun trafficking.  As you know, it was all about the U.N. taking our guns away, under the guise of rational limitations on the sale of weapons across borders.  The email denounced the treaty and included the names of Senators who voted in favor of the treaty, and it called them "traitors" and demanded they be replaced at the next election.
Meanwhile, back in the real world, the treaty specifically stated that it could not be interpreted as in any way as limiting 2nd amendment rights.  It didn't need to include that language, because any treaty cannot limit a constitutional right. 
The inclusion of the clarifying language didn't fool the gun nuts, though.  They staged an active campaign to defeat the treaty, and it worked.  By not ratifying the treaty, the U.S. joined the esteemed company of Iran, Syria and North Korea in voting it down.
Because of the strong NRA push to defeat the treaty, I think the Senators who voted for the treaty showed some backbone, something we don't see often in Washington.
Similarly, the NRA campaign to defeat the closing of the background check loopholes by falsely claiming it would create a national registry of guns and would outlaw the transfer of a gun between brothers-in-law worked.  The senate today defeated the provision which would have required a background check at gun shows, etc.  The hold of the NRA over Washington is absolutely amazing.  And the Senators who voted against the provision, parroting the NRA lies about the law, are cowards of the first order.
The fact that lies are peddled in some wholesale manner to the public, and the fact that the public cannot recognize it as such is dumbfounding.  Far too many people cannot think for themselves, instead, relying on their own paranoid fantasies and Fox news to give them the information that they are so hungry for. 
Validate me, please.