http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/nra-tactics-erode-post-newtown-support-for-gun-control-measures/2013/04/05/fa932046-9d52-11e2-a941-a19bce7af755_story.html?hpid=z1
Sen Mark Begich declared a “sea change” in the politics of gun control immediately after the school shooting in Newtown, Conn., telling his local newspaper that he would not hesitate to buck the powerful National Rifle Association.
But in the months since, the gun rights group has made itself impossible for the Alaska Democrat, and many other lawmakers, to resist.
one question do you want some entity that is able to control your government, while pursuing gun rights for drunks in bars, they have allowed the rhetoric of mentally ill persons and guns while convieniently omitting those right wing leaning extremist and the crazies not mental but those that seem to think this is their country and only theirs.
so they are armed and ready to go to war with the gov.'t, not that the NRA has not done all it can to arm and over arm these zealots, bribe and scare polticans into helping them threaten the country in to NRA submission. and teaching your kids the way of the gun, it's still true live by it expire by it.
Begich has signed on as a co-sponsor of a bill, drafted in consultation with the NRA, that would change the way mental illness is reported in the background check system — a measure that critics say could make firearms more easily available to the mentally ill.Over the past two weeks, while Congress has been in recess, Begich said he was approached repeatedly by constituents who echoed NRA views, telling him not to, in his words, “mess with our gun rights” or “ban anything.”
like i said they are all to willing to lay all the death and destruction at the feet of the mentally ill, because it takes our eyes off those that are really going to turn the country into a wild west show.
The gun rights group has suffered some serious setbacks since the December school shooting. New gun limits have passed in reliably liberalMaryland and New York and in Colorado and Connecticut, where two of the most recent shooting rampages occurred.
there is still hope keep it alive.
