NRA WILL REGRET DISSING GABBY By Joan Walsh

[DonViejo]

Giffords is a fighter, and NRA will be sorry
The post-Newtown gun-control movement must undo a decade of Democratic inaction on guns. And it will

BY JOAN WALSH

Adorable red-haired Daniel Barden will live forever, but only in photographs: the six year old with two eternally missing front teeth was murdered in the Sandy Hook massacre. So if his father Mark isn’t giving up on gun control, after losing not only his beloved son but the shameful Senate vote on background check legislation Wednesday, then nobody else is allowed to give up.

President Obama let Mark Barden introduce him before his angry Rose Garden reaction to the failure of the Manchin-Toomey compromise, and to me that signaled a new, long-term, bare-knuckled and visceral approach to the issue of guns. Barden reminded us that the motto of the gun-control group he co-founded, Newtown Promise, is, “Our hearts are broken, but our spirits are not.” That’s got to become the animating drive of a nationwide movement to fight the National Rifle Association and its allies, on every level. This defeat, however crushing and shameful, is just a beginning.

Not only Barden and Obama but Gabrielle Giffords took a shockingly hard line after the Senate vote. The former congresswoman also appeared at the Rose Garden press conference, and afterwards she sent out an angry statement – she couldn’t reliably speak at the press conference because her speech is unreliable since she was shot in the head in January, 2011. I read these lines from Gifford, and I wondered about them:

Over two years ago, when I was shot point-blank in the head, the U.S. Senate chose to do nothing. Four months ago, 20 first-graders lost their lives in a brutal attack on their school, and the U.S. Senate chose to do nothing.

It’s clear to me that if members of the U.S. Senate refuse to change the laws to reduce gun violence, then we need to change the members of the U.S. Senate.

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http://www.salon.com/2013/04/18/the_nra_will_be_sorry/

[still_one]

1. I hope Walsh is right /nt

[carolinayellowdog]

2. I hope Glenn Reynolds will regret it too

not out of moral regret, of which I doubt he's capable, but as a result of Instapundit becoming a loathesome word

[Sunlei]

3. NRA lobby disses ALL of us through 'their' politicans.It sucks!!America is 'owned' by lobbyists.

Think I remember President Obama asked for- no lobbyists allowed- hanging on their politicans. Lobbyists do all the work for some of them.

Then the Presidents request got reduced to lobbyists wearing some color badge?, white house published in public the guests list?. That's not enough.