When children are cruelly gunned down in their school, I’m heartbroken, and I’m outraged about the ongoing danger to my grandson and all school children in our country. Endless mass shootings and gun deaths yet Congress won’t pass common sense gun regulations!
The barriers to effective gun control are entirely political. Lawmakers and activists have not been able to overcome Republican insistence on unregulated guns despite the epidemic of mass shootings. Although 90 percent of Americans — including nearly 74 percent of NRA members — support background checks, Senate Republicans, led by Mitch McConnell, have used the filibuster to paralyze Congress.
Speaking about mass shootings at the recent World Economic Forum, Al Gore said: “[The] reasons why the United States has been incapable of responding to these tragedies are the same reasons — lobbying, campaign contributions, the capture of policymaking, the control of politicians with money, lobbyists — that it has been impossible to pass climate legislation. Our democracy has been paralyzed, bought, captured. It has to stop.”