Saturday's one year anniversary of the movie theater shooting in Aurora, Colo., came and went with and little attention.The shooting, in which a mentally disturbed gunman killed 12 and wounded 70 after firing into a crowd with automatic weapons, briefly pushed the topic of gun control to the forefront of the nation’s attention.Sadly, this was also the case less than five months later following the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., in which another mentally disturbed gunman killed 20 children and six adults.Yet now, more than a full year after the Aurora shooting, there have been a grand total of zero legislative measures to curb such future tragedies.
Despite weeks of intense debate in Washington following the shooting, no actions were taken by Congress, and we were only left with a series of Executive Orders by President Obama – which ultimately appear to be toothless initiatives comprised of broad-sweeping language and no congressional support.Following the Aurora shootings, Congress discussed steps that would have sought to prevent future massacres by imposing stricter measures for gun ownerships. These proposals, which had significant public support, included: limiting the capacity of magazines for automatic weapons, conducting universal background checks for anyone purchasing a firearm, establishing a database to prevent those with mental illness for being able to purchase a firearm, and closing the infamous gun-show loophole.
all i remember was the NRA's republican party fighting tooth and nail not to do any of the above, instead trying to promote even more proliferation of guns in society, right down to arming your kindergarten kid's teacher, some even talked about arming the kids, how insane is that?
In the shock that followed the Aurora shooting – and later Sandy Hook – it seemed that these tragedies would compel our national leaders into meaningful changes aimed at reducing such horrific occurrences of gun violence.However, instead of any of these common-sense measures (which, in fact, did not seek to curtail the rights of present or future gun-owners) actually garnering enough momentum to be passed into law, our nation came out of the tragedy with more hyper-partisan debate and deeper ideological divides. Now, more than a year after Aurora, many of our nation’s leaders have signaled by inaction that a status-quo mentality of “mass shootings happen” is OK.
i honestly believe if all those in favor of were to have their kids or family killed like those talked about, they would still not try to get stricter gun laws but ramp up the desire to get more of them on the streets this time carried but half cocked Zimmerman types, just enjoying their exploited understanding of the 2nd amendment.
LaPierre, "the best defense against a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun", he left out the bad guy has more experience not training with cardboard figures and has to problem dropping the hammer on you while looking in your eyes.
