Blue Herald
18
Apr
Gun Limits
by Buck • 9:50 am

Only proves not enough gun lobbyists in Washington have school-aged children.

Freedom of speech must have some limits. For obvious reasons, yelling ‘FIRE!’ in a crowded theater cannot be protected. Why can’t the same logic be used here? How many more kids have to be senselessly killed before eyes are opened?

Until a machine, which can prove a person “sane and well-balanced”, can be built and installed in every gun store in America, we need to revisit gun limits. (Sane people purchasing Glocks and AK-47’s… I made a funny!)

CNN.com:

Gun control unlikely to get on agenda despite shootings

AP PhotoWASHINGTON (CNN) — Is the Virginia Tech tragedy likely to put gun control on the political agenda? Don’t bet on it. In recent years, gun control has been an issue most politicians prefer to stay away from.

The last significant gun control measures to make it through Congress were the Brady bill in 1993 and the assault weapons ban in 1994.

And what happened? Democrats lost control of Congress for 12 years. President Clinton said the gun lobby had a lot to do with his party’s defeat. Democrats have been gun’shy ever since.
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Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-California, issued a statement saying, “I believe this will re-ignite the dormant effort to pass common’sense gun regulations in this nation.”

But public anger is not usually sustained very long, whereas gun owners remember every gun control vote as a threat to their rights. Gun owners vote the issue. Supporters of gun control typically don’t. So politicians believe they will pay a price at the polls if they support new guns laws, even when most voters agree with them. When it comes to public opinion, intensity matters. Not just numbers.


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