This blog has had its share of diehard NRA handmaidens tooting their horns in the comments section. We're not at all shy about deleting offensive comments and that's what we'll be doing on a regular basis. No need for more comments that range from naive to inaccurate to venal in the service of more random killings. No more pleas about their freedom being taken away and listing phantoms they believe are out to get them. They are -- probably all of them -- senseless and cowardly, and they no longer get room in cyberspace courtesy of this website.
Gaby Giffords -- no coward -- has this to say about our current senators:
They will try to hide their decision behind grand talk, behind willfully false accounts of what the bill might have done — trust me, I know how politicians talk when they want to distract you — but their decision was based on a misplaced sense of self-interest. I say misplaced, because to preserve their dignity and their legacy, they should have heeded the voices of their constituents. They should have honored the legacy of the thousands of victims of gun violence and their families, who have begged for action, not because it would bring their loved ones back, but so that others might be spared their agony.
This defeat is only the latest chapter of what I’ve always known would be a long, hard haul. Our democracy’s history is littered with names we neither remember nor celebrate — people who stood in the way of progress while protecting the powerful. On Wednesday, a number of senators voted to join that list.
Mark my words: if we cannot make our communities safer with the Congress we have now, we will use every means available to make sure we have a different Congress, one that puts communities’ interests ahead of the gun lobby’s. To do nothing while others are in danger is not the American way. ...NYT
