No Federal legislation to come of the massacre at Newtown ??

By on March 12, 2013 in

Nothing substantive has come from Congress since the bloody slaughter in Newtown. Who and where are the leaders who won’t ignore the murdered children, and their families? When we need someone to step up and take responsibility, where are they? I remember names like George Aiken of Vermont, Frank Church of Idaho, Albert Gore Sr. of Tennessee. They put their political careers on the line, second to doing what is right. When it was unpopular to come out against the Vietnam War, or in favor of Civil Rights, they stood on principle. Those are the heroes. What or who drives today’s crop, I am uncertain. Handlers? Today we witness poll driven professionals, with fingers in the air. Isn’t it a pity, when 89% of NH’s citizens say they support Universal Background Checks, and 72% say they want the assault rifle ban reinstated, that we hear nothing from our electeds. If they so fear losing their positions that they won’t stand up for what’s right and safe and fair…what have we become?

“There are plenty in Washington who expect next to nothing to come of the massacre at Newtown, and believe that if compromise can barely survive the committee process it will certainly be doomed in the full Congress.”

http://swampland.time.com/2013/03/11/how-gun-control-ends-not-with-a-bang-but-a-whimper/

“This is why taking public action matters. It’s why elections matter. Suit up, people. It’s time to get in the ground game.” The Project for Safer Communities NH

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  • hannah

    Property rights have always trumped human rights. Moreover, the ostensible concern for minors is just for show. In truth, in the U.S. children are the last bastion of ownership. Which is why, other than Somalia, the U.S. is the only nation which has refused to ratify the Convention on the Rights of the Child.
    Besides, we have created artificial persons (corporations) so they can be unaccoutable. And so they are.
    The right to bear arms does not preclude restrictions on the corporations that manufacture and sell them, but corporations are property.

  • mevansnh

    One reason is that today’s legislators don’t have the courage to do the right thing out of fear, fear that they won’t be re-elected. Being re-elected is more important to most of them than what is right for the state, and the nation. All we have to do is look at Photo-op Kelly Ayotte who has been using her Jr. Senator position to hobnob with angry old men, thinking that will help her re-election in 2016. She is one of many gutless wonders in public office. How did NH ever send that woman to congress…a former attorney general who refused to accept responsibility for her office’s failure to reign in the gangsters from Laconia as they robbed numerous NH citizens of their life’s savings?

    Ayotte needs to be made a ONE TERM SENATOR.

  • JonnyBBad

    Senate Judiciary Committee approved reinstating the assault weapons ban 10 to 8, with all Dems supporting and all Republicans opposed. I assume it will die anyway, because harry Reid does not support it.