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What Now for Gun Control?
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and other Democratic leaders in Congress folded their tents on comprehensive gun control fast dropping a ban on assault weapons and limits on the size of magazines as they watered down the official bill that will hit the Senate floor.
Whats left of the bill is important notably universal background checks and a measure to enhance criminal penalties for straw man sales. The more pragmatically minded among gun control advocates are arguing that we should just accept what is doable and stop fighting battles that are already lost. But not everyone is giving up.
Mayor Michael Bloomberg of New York, a national leader on gun control, has said he will keep fighting for an assault weapons ban. His gun control group, Mayors Against Illegal Guns, announced it would spend $12 million to air ads putting pressure on both Republican and Democratic to vote for the ban as a separate amendment.
On Thursday, President Obama renewed his call for legislation, including a ban on some of the most lethal guns (so-called military-style assault weapons designed for the singular purpose of killing as many people as possible as quickly as possible.)
http://takingnote.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/03/29/what-now-for-gun-control/
Whats left of the bill is important notably universal background checks and a measure to enhance criminal penalties for straw man sales. The more pragmatically minded among gun control advocates are arguing that we should just accept what is doable and stop fighting battles that are already lost. But not everyone is giving up.
Mayor Michael Bloomberg of New York, a national leader on gun control, has said he will keep fighting for an assault weapons ban. His gun control group, Mayors Against Illegal Guns, announced it would spend $12 million to air ads putting pressure on both Republican and Democratic to vote for the ban as a separate amendment.
On Thursday, President Obama renewed his call for legislation, including a ban on some of the most lethal guns (so-called military-style assault weapons designed for the singular purpose of killing as many people as possible as quickly as possible.)
http://takingnote.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/03/29/what-now-for-gun-control/
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What Now for Gun Control? (Original Post)
SecularMotion
Mar 2013
OP
I'm not resting until the rest of the nation has gun laws equal or better to those in California.
ellisonz
Mar 2013
#2
It seems unlikely that anything will be passed at the national level until 2015 at the earliest.
Peter cotton
Mar 2013
#3
Turbineguy
(38,411 posts)1. They are waiting for the NRA
to be satisfied with the number of people shot.
ellisonz
(27,743 posts)2. I'm not resting until the rest of the nation has gun laws equal or better to those in California.
Peter cotton
(380 posts)3. It seems unlikely that anything will be passed at the national level until 2015 at the earliest.
No significant gun control is going to be passed in a Republican-held House.