Harry Reid has raised the white flag on gun control:
“Senate Democrats have abandoned efforts to pass a law this year expanding background checks for gun purchases — dealing a new setback to the drive for tougher gun laws after the Newtown school massacre. In a meeting Thursday with a pro-gun-control group, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said budget battles looming this fall will make it impossible to enact the background-check measure that failed to pass in April …”
And our little Mayor ain’t happy about it:
“A day after Senate Democrats announced plans to abandon efforts to pass substantive gun control laws this year, a disgusted Mayor Bloomberg accused Congress of being too lazy to carry on the fight – and warned of repercussions at the ballot box. “We’re going to keep going after senators that won’t [support gun control],” he said in his weekly appearance on the John Gambling radio show. “If Congress won’t [act],” he added, “we’ve got to have the public get up and say ‘We’re not going to take it. We’re going to vote for somebody else.’” …”
Therein lies Bloomberg’s problem: there is no “we.” Gun control does not have an activist voting constituency and Congress knows it.
Just a quik thanks for your wonderful blog. It allows me to vent (therapy), and also to know that I am not alone in my terrible disppointment with where this once great nation has gone. We must carry on this fight. Thanks again, and fuck Bloomberg, he is truly a disgrace.