Reality bites, so
they say, and the reality of the current debate on whether or not to add
sensible regulation to gun ownership in this country is that after all the
debate nothing will be done. Whatever
bill passes the Senate, if any does, will not be approved in the House. The current posturing on the issue is for
public consumption only, the idea is to look like legislators are doing
something when they are not.
- Eugene Robinson
- Opinion Writer
Harry Reid’s surrender
So
it is disheartening to see an opinion
piece by Eugene Robinson, an otherwise intelligent and knowledgeable person
that condemns Senate Majority leader Harry Reid for the failure to have an
assault weapons ban in the current doomed legislation pending in the Senate.
Shame on
Harry Reid for killing any prospect of an assault weapons ban.
I understand why he did it, but that doesn’t make it right.
Mr. Robinson wants the Senate to vote on the ban, to
put Senators on record that they want to allow Americans to own assault weapons
freely and unencumbered.
The worst way to respond to the shocking massacre
in Newtown, Conn.,would be to let
political self-interest stand in the way of meaningful action. The parents of
those 20 slain children deserve a vote on the assault weapons ban. The families
of the 30,000 Americans who will be killed by gunfire this year deserve a vote.
Bringing the measure to the floor of both the Senate and the House is the least
Congress can do.
Exactly what a failed vote would accomplish is not
clear. Everyone knows who is opposed to
banning assault weapons, just as everyone knows the vote to ban them will fail
and just as everyone knows there will be no political repercussions against
those who want every American to own an assault weapon.
If Mr. Robinson wants to fume and rant on this issue,
he should do so against the people who are the problem, Conservatives who feel
that somehow the 2nd Amendment means that anyone can own a weapon
designed for military action and designed to kill as many people as possible in
as short a time as possible.
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