Newtown far from a catalyst for gun control.In a year since school shootings many states loosen laws

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NEWTOWN, Conn. — The mass shooting that killed 20 first-graders and six school workers at Sandy Hook Elementary School a year ago was a tragedy so heinous that it would, many thought, fuel a broad national campaign to make guns more difficult to buy and use.

President Obama, in a speech in this bucolic town, made it his personal mission: “Are we really prepared to say that we’re powerless in the face of such carnage, that the politics are too hard?”

Much of the politics, in the end, turned against him. Today, it is easier, not harder, to carry a gun in many parts of the nation than it was before the Newtown massacre last Dec. 14.

More than 1,500 bills were filed in state legislatures amid a chorus of grieving voices from shattered families. And while several reliably blue states enacted major reforms, far more states, more than two dozen, passed laws that weakened gun control. Many expanded the number of places where concealed weapons are permitted.

http://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2013/12/12/year-after-newtown-shootings-gun-laws-many-states-are-weaker/du0LGq40xlGGob3ZBALdQJ/story.html

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1. Obviously, Americans must carry on dying for now.

And for the foreseeable future.

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3. appears there are no political consequences....

as long as we give lip service after massive killings, i think we're fine....

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2. Different areas will continue to push to the extremes until it all comes crashing down...

... in the Supreme Court and they come down one way or another.

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4. Locking, this does not meet the SOP for GD. There are currently no

special exceptions .

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10022542300

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