http://www.salon.com/2013/10/25/fight_the_nra_28117_gun_deaths_since_sandy_hook_must_be_remembered/
remembering and inaction only make a unpleasant past incident.
As of this week, estimates are that 28,177 Americans have died of gun violence since the Newtown, Conn., school shootings.That’s 90 people every single day.This includes a two-year-old who, last weekend, fatally shot herself with a loaded .22-caliber pistol she found in her family’s living room. And it includes the 12-year-old who earlier this week opened fire at his middle school in Nevada and the teacher he killed in the shooting.It includes, frankly, 28,177 more people than it should. And most of those 28,177 people don’t even register on our public radar as we become disgustingly numbed to the everyday prevalence of gun violence in our communities.We don’t know all the solutions to gun violence and violence in general. But not having the perfect answer doesn’t mean we should do nothing at all — and we know some very simple and, not incidentally, very popular measures that we could take to curb gun violence.Almost nine in 10 Americans support universal background checks for gun sales — which is also supported by 75 percent of actual NRA members. Seventy percent of Americans support bans on military-style semi-automatic weapons and high-capacity ammunition magazines. Even a strong majority of NRA members think that people with certain types of recent criminal charges should not be able to buy guns and that illegally selling guns should carry a minimum two year prison sentence.
there will be no gun control legislation until the T-P and radical right wing element is out of the house out of the business of following orders of big business orders that are in violation of their oath to protect the constitution and "we the people".
Sure, it has something to do with the disproportionate stranglehold that the NRA leadership — divorced from the desires of their actual members — has on Congress, both Republicans and to a disturbing extent some key Democrats as well.And sure, to an extent part of the challenge is that while a small number of gun rights extremists feel particularly passionate about this issue, the large majority of Americans who want sensible reforms don’t feel as impassioned. The persistence of the minority fringe trumps the desires of the reasonable majority. Tyranny of the majority, this ain’t.But the other factor is surely the irony that we have become so inoculated to the massive and ever-present reality of gun violence that we shake our collective fist less and less vociferously in its constant wake.According to one report, there is a mass shooting every five days in the United States. Every five days! That is nothing short of horrifying. And yet like many horrors of a grand scale, whether widespread poverty worldwide or rampant domestic violence against women, such social issues can seem overwhelming and therefore intractable.
to know what's a shame? those supposed "responsible owners", who's kids have become part of the statistic are not rallying some tend to see those affected say nothing in opposition so until it happens to another of that mindset it gets ignored, then the complacency sets in until the next time which seems to be more often then most think. and who knows how many small town events don't get reported?
