Fairfax, VA -(AmmoLand.com)- Surrounded by armed law enforcement officers, thirty partisan senators gathered on the Capitol steps Thursday, demanding that the public create “a groundswell of urgency” for gun control.
Their sentiments parroted earlier comments by the president, who insisted that each American will “just have to, for a while be a single issue voter” for the cause. Neither the president nor the senators actually unveiled legislative language for the American people to evaluate.
Instead, they articulated what the Washington Post called “a list of gun control principles.” People were told to demand that their Senate colleagues “take action,” close “loopholes,” improve “databases,” shut down “the illegal pipeline,” keep guns from “domestic abusers,” and act with “common sense.”
Markedly absent was a call for reform of America’s broken mental health system, which would take a meaningful step towards solving underlying problems faced by our society.
Clearly, this press conference was about politics and sound bites, not about solving problems.
We will certainly report on the details of any legislation that eventually emerges.
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Just look at the picture. There’s your problem. Dip$#its all.
It has been alleged that the mass murderers making the news are either democrats or children of democrats, maybe excepting the muslim scumbag that shot up the military base. And what action have the democrats done to “solve” or just reduce the problem? Nothing except complain and whine. Maybe there ought to be a law preventing democrats owning or possessing guns.
We have met the enemies of American freedom before, and they all have a (D) after their name.
If these senators want people to give up their guns, then they are going tie have to do the same thing, they are going to have to give up the armed security that they have around all the the time. When ALL the politicians give up ALL armed security that they ttravel with then I (might) think about doing the same, but not likely. The government wants the people disarmed but the gov is unwilling to give up their armed security. If they disarm the people then the politicians will no longer have a need for all that armed security…