How Many More Deaths Until We Get Serious On Gun Control?
The on-air murders of a TV news reporter and cameraman has thrust the issue of gun control back into the national dialogue. This is a conversation that we should be having, but politicians are still toeing the NRA’s line.
Ring of Fire’s Farron Cousins and Sam Seder discuss this.
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Or maybe I can. I thought that maybe, maybe the horror of Sandy Hook might have
given the Congress pause, but no...
It is an OUTRAGE that we have to take this domestic terrorism sitting down-- that it's
"just one of those things" that happens in America and that's that.
Face it. We had a "discussion," it somewhat lasted for decades -- from JFK's death to this morning -- and whatever rules and regulations, whatever concessions, were obtained in those years are the best we can hope to acquire. Nothing else of any substance is going to change.
Better to devote time and energy to defending the 1st Amendment. The only ultimate hope we have that something may one day be accomplished is if we just keep talking about it. But as I see it this afternoon, little was done in the wake of John's murder, and nothing was done for those children, so I no longer expect my generation -- or those sharing this beautiful planet with me -- to accomplish anything more of substance.
This old comic from Tom Tomorrow goes a long ways to explain it:
Or, put another way:
