We probably need to see a couple more school shootings first, admit US Senators

[dipsydoodle]

The US Senate has rejected plans to extend background checks on people looking to buy guns, insisting the lack of school shootings in the last few weeks means they’re probably not needed.

President Obama sought to bring in tighter gun controls this month, but his proposals were rejected by a Senate that believes further controls are not really needed.

As one senator explained, ”It has been 126 days since anyone shot a small child to death with a gun and ammunition that we have the power to ban, and that’s pretty much the same as it stopping for ever, so why change anything?”

“We’re just creating extra work for ourselves here when our nation’s children are almost certainly not going to be shot today.

http://newsthump.com/2013/04/18/we-probably-need-to-see-a-couple-more-school-shootings-first-admit-us-senators/

[Baitball Blogger]

1. Holy Ph------Q.

[peace13]

2. Forgot the satire button!

Inside their heads it is probably spot on!!

[DreamGypsy]

3. In addition to being a rediculous justification, the Senator's statement is untrue...

...I did a spot search on Gun Deaths Since Newtown among 62 deaths of children under 12 since December 14th. My third random check found this: Breaking: Five Dead in South Valley Shooting from the ABQJournal (Albuquerque), Sun, Jan 20, 2013

8:23 p.m. — It was a “horrific” crime scene that confronted deputies Saturday night: Former Calvary church Pastor Greg Griego; his wife, Sarah; and their three youngest children dead — fatally shot multiple times with a “military-style” assault rifle and other weapons — at their South Valley home.

The suspect in custody is the couple’s 15-year-old son, Nehemiah Griego, who neighbors said often wore “nothing but camouflage” and wanted to be in the army.

“I’ve never seen a scene quite like this,” Bernalillo County Sheriff Dan Houston said at a news conference Sunday morning.

The teen is accused of using several weapons, including a “military style” assault rifle, according to the Bernalillo County Sheriff’s Office, to kill his parents and three youngest siblings.

Remember that one?

Police have released the names and ages of the victims in the South Valley shooting.

They are:

Greg Griego, 51
Sarah Griego, 40
Zephania Griego, 9
Jael Griego, 5
Angelina Griego, 2

11 days in January, 28 days in February, 31 days in March, 18 days in April = 88 days

Your research staff got it wrong, Senator. If you're going to make offensive statements that a gap of a small number of days between heinous crimes is "stopping them forever", then at least be accurate with your 'facts'.

The little icon on the gun deaths site that marks the shooting of Angelina Griego is only the 16th of the 62 tombstones for the children that have died since Newtown. Others of the 46 tombstones may reveal a child killed by a 'weapon that we have the power to ban" more recently than 88 days.

[WhaTHellsgoingonhere]

4. We probably need a few more (economic, political, war, shootings, Bush catastrophies)

When we applying band-aids to the global market meltdown to mitigate some of the suffering, I was thinking all the while, I was thinking "Chinese water torture." The bandages we are applying to mitigate some of the suffering are short-term remedies to structural problems that won't go away until things are "bad enough." And as bad as things are today, they're not "bad enough."

I follow what these Senators are saying...