Freitag, 14. Januar 2011
Don't Hold Your Breath for Tighter Gun Control (The Atlantic Wire)
The Atlantic Wire - Immediately after Saturday's shooting in Tucson, it looked as though Congress might be considering stricter gun laws. At six days out, though, a consensus seems to be forming that gun regulation will get no tighter as a result of the shooting--and if anything, it may become more permissive. A common argument is that if more bystanders had been armed at the Tucson Safeway this week, Jared Loughner might have been stopped earlier, and lives might have been saved. Here are some assessments of the political climate at week's end, and a few of the responses:
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