There’s a shooting. There are multiple fatalities, most of them children. You’re in the media. Or perhaps you’re a politician. What do you do? What if you’re part of an organization that calls for as much gun legalization as possible, or maybe just an average citizen who isn’t too well-informed on current events? What do you do? If you answered “act sensibly” to any of these scenarios then you’re not playing your part.

At the beginning of 2012, Citizen’s United, a Supreme Court  ruling with an Orwellian name, was thought to be one of the most destructive forces at work in the political world as the nation headed towards the presidential election. Many thought Super PACs would run amok and the candidates would be answering to their donors, not to the peopl. Comedians Bill Maher and Stephen Colbert both made a show of mocking Super PACs and using them for their own benefit. Cable new stations asked what effect Super PACs would end up having on the election. Hell, FOX News even had “analysts” who ran their own Super PACs.