As Gun Legislation Moves Towards Its Near Certain Defeat – Here’s a Lesson That Was Taught in the 2013 Boston Massacre

Sorry Gun Nuts, Your Assault Weapon Will Not Protect You

The fantasy of many people and the media that meaningful gun regulation would pass after the Newtown shootings is running up against reality.

 

As debate begins, Senate background check proposal for gun sales lacks necessary votes

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By Ed O’Keefe and Tom Hamburger, Published: April 15

Debate on a major overhaul of the of the nation’s gun-control laws is scheduled to begin Tuesday in the U.S. Senate, but there were still not enough votes late Monday to assure expansion of the national gun background check program for gun sales, which is the centerpiece of the proposal.

This is to be expected.  Men and women who think that the right to own an automatic weapon is greater than the right to be safe and secure in one’s own home will never  be defeated  by logic, honesty, or respect for life.

But their argument that gun ownership will make everyone safer was cruelly destroyed by the events at the Boston Marathon.  No amount of automatic weapons would have prevented that tragedy, no amount of unlimited gun rights would have stopped the bombs.

Think about it.