Calmes: Big Lie No. 2 — Congress has done all it can 'on guns' (via latimesopinion )
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to reporters on the Capitol steps Monday, Rep. Tim Burchett of Tennessee summed up the Republican Party’s deliberate impotence against an epidemic of gun violence and mass shootings that distinguishes this nation from just about all others. Six of Burchett’s fellow Tennesseans — three 9-year-olds and three adults roughly his age — had just been slaughtered at a private Presbyterian school in Nashville by the latest killer wielding assault weapons. The congressman was saying that “wefix” the problem of record shootings. Yet “won’t” applies as well to Republicans. Predictably, they’ve stuck to their two-pronged agenda on gun massacres: thoughts and prayers. Jackie Calmes brings a critical eye to the national political scene.
The assault weapon ban enacted three decades ago was a personal victory for California’s then-freshman Sen. Dianne Feinstein, who was a 1993 attack at a San Francisco law firm that left eight people dead, as well as by the 1989 shootings at a Stockton schoolyard that killed five kids and injured 27, plus a teacher.
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