Congress returns from recess today and we are told that that the various components of gun control are on this week’s to-do list.
The President will take his gun control message to Connecticut where he will be joined by some of the parents whose children were slaughtered in the Sandy Hook shootings.
Last night many of those same parents were interviewed on “60 Minutes.” The interview is certainly worth watching. Not for the raw emotion displayed by those who have lost their young innocents. But for the clear headed, rational, chilling oratory of what our society faces with absolute certainty if we don’t do something about gun violence in this country.
Rand Paul, Ted Cruz and a few other misguided Senators believe that stricter gun control laws are the first steps toward having they government take away all their guns. They have proclaimed that they will filibuster any attempt to bring stricter gun control laws to the floor for a vote; laws which are now supported by over 92% of the voters.
Senator Paul and his cohorts should be forced to watch this interview. They should be forced to see what happens when radical conspiracy theory ideology meets the realities of life.
It is hard for us to fathom how anyone watching this could come away unconvinced that we have a serious gun problem in this country. It is even harder to fathom how lawmakers could be so insensitive to the will of 92% of the people that they would block the issue from even coming to a vote.
We cannot help but wonder what the conversation in Washington would be like if one of their own were sitting among those parents, grieving over the loss of a child. Our guess is that the conversation on the Hill would be very, very different.
The Sandy Hook victims, their families, their friends and millions of other Americans who a have suffered as the result of gun violence deserve a vote.
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