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Gun control and Mitch McConnell
Today on Twitter I’ve seen numbers of people — including Chuck Schumer and other Democratic Senators — demand Mitch McConnell curtail the Congressional recess, bring the Senate back and deal with gun violence legislation. The Senate does not need to … Continue reading
Posted in Law, suits and order, Politics, The Facts of Life
Tagged 116th House gun control legislation, assault weapons ban, Gladys Ricard, gun background checks, gun control legislation, gun dealers, gun sales, gun suicide, gun thefts, gun violence, gun violence research, guns and high-risk individuals, House Bills on gun violence, Mitch McConnell, victims of gun violence, violent gun offenders registration, white supremacist terrorism
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Guns 3: how to challenge the NRA
In Guns 2, I told you about my first letter to Kirsten Gillibrand–who at that time, 2009, still supported the NRA. I told her I’d be cutting out clips of every gun violence story I found in my two newspapers, … Continue reading
Posted in The Facts of Life
Tagged Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence, gun violence, Kirsten Gillibrand, NRA
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Guns 1: Can we challenge the NRA?
Yes. How? Like this: Michael Waldman gave us the essence of How To, when he quoted Abraham Lincoln as Lincoln debated slavery: Public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment, nothing can fail; without it, nothing can succeed. Consequently he who … Continue reading
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Tagged Abraham Lincoln, Affordable Care Act, citizen action, Daily News, equal rights, gun control, gun rights, gun violence, Kirsten Gillibrand, Michael Waldman, Neil Gorsuch, New York Times, the NRA
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