EDITORIAL: Did Connecticut GOP shift national momentum on gun control?
"Connecticut could have passed a gun control bill without a single Republican vote...
"It could have passed tough new restrictions over the objection of every Republican in the state House and Senate even if theyd been joined by a number of the more conservative Democrats...
"Instead, Democrats insisted that minority Republicans be at the table, and that gun owners would be heard even as public hearings stretched past midnight. And they agreed to compromise."
Excellent editorial in the New Haven Register: http://www.nhregister.com/articles/2013/04/09/opinion/doc516334febfdab885406133.txt
Usually, I am wary of the Register's editorial page. But today, they did a magnificent job of outlining "how we did it" in CT. The shame on our state was just too great not to be remedied, at least in doing as much as we COULD do.
Not every state can do what CT was able to do. But the point is that if nothing is ventured, nothing is gained...