Gun Control Debacle

The news coverage of proposed gun control laws is sometimes hilarious, sometimes downright scary, and sometimes have a ring of intelligence.  We hear the NRA boasting that congress will never mess with the second ammendment but they don't go as far as to say how many congressmen are under their thumb.  Interviews with citizens who have in some way been victims of gun violence often seem to be the only sane ones we see.

Every single day there are news reports in the United States of murder by gun and you wonder just what it will take for the NRA to accept that there are just too many guns and assault weapons in their country and that is one damn big problem.  Unfortunately, they seem to have dug in their heels and will defend their rights to own any and all weapons until doomsday.

So many innocent people have lost their lives because some gun wielding brute used it to enforce their will.  How many of these weapons were stolen by criminals from homes where the guns had been legally purchased?  How many of these weapons were left within reach of mentally unstable people or even children?  Apparently anyone can purchase a gun at a gun show and not even have to submit to a background check.  There's no question that the laws need to change but the NRA might be right...congress might be too corrupted to do the right thing for the citizens of this country.

I have faith that President Obama will do what he can but he can't do it alone.  Many of those politicians representing the American people have to join with him.  We'll just have to wait and see if they will.