It's been six months and SOME of the people affected by Sandy Hook are marking the date by making a trip to Capitol Hill to once again try and talk lawmakers into infringing on others 2A rights, all because a mentally unstable individual committed murder using available tools. It's strange to me how when we hear stories of someone plowing an out of control car into a crowd, injuring and / or killing several people we never hear about the pressing need for car control.....
Six months after the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, some of the victims' families are heading to Capitol Hill to remind lawmakers they are painfully waiting for action, while some of the president's allies are asking him to do more without any new prospects of legislation to toughen gun laws.
"It is very disappointing that six months have passed, and although we are making progress in individual states, we aren't making progress on the federal level when it comes to background checks when an overwhelming number of Americans support it," she said in a telephone interview.
Gun control advocates also are anticipating further action from President Barack Obama, who said he would do everything he could to stem gun violence even without Congress.
The Center for American Progress, a Washington think tank with close ties to the White House, is asking Obama to issue a dozen more executive actions they say are within his power to reduce gun crimes. The group has been pushing those measures in meetings with the White House, where point man Vice President Joe Biden declared in an email to supporters Friday, "This fight is far from over."
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