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“The senators who voted against background checks for online and gun-show sales, and those who voted against checks to screen out would-be gun buyers with mental illness, failed to do their job. They looked at these most benign and practical of solutions, offered by moderates from each party, and then they looked over their shoulder at the powerful, shadowy gun lobby — and brought shame on themselves and our government itself by choosing to do nothing. […] 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.”
From: Gabrielle Giffords in a scathing New York Times op-ed piece today, after the Senate failed to meet the 60-vote threshold to pass legislation for universal background checks
(For context, read A Letter to the Country from an Emergency Physician)
I won’t lie, I’m not going to try to deliver an apolitical message here. Taking a passionate stance on an issue is almost certainly going to raise someone’s political ire and to attempt to lead a controversy free existence…
Guys, this is the best thing I’ve read today.
She was already in tears when she walked into the waiting area. I caught sight of her as I was finishing up paperwork from the case before hers. She was fourth in line and I kept glancing up at her as I worked my way through the people in front of her.
Criers are hard to deal with. Most people…
This is beautiful.
Mother Jones breaks down the numbers
- Of the 137 guns possessed by the killers, more than three quarters were obtained legally.
- The average age of the killers was 35. Only one of them was a woman.
- In the sixty mass shootings, forty two of the killers were white males.
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