When will America wake up to the fact that is is time for total gun control: now. Not tomorrow. Not a week from tomorrow. Next month. Next year.
Now.
When will we learn from the series of tragedies that recur, like the shootings of the Pittsburgh policemen.
Then there is the Binghampton tragedy killing thirteen innocent people.
Jiverly Wong had been told he had the right to bear arms, unfortunately the thirteen people he killed have been deprived of life.
The Columbine killers were told they had a right to bear arms and deprived 12 Columbine students and a teacher of their life. The father of a Columbine victim, Tom Mauser, has been lobbying for sensible gun control legislation.
"Two weeks before the tragedy at Columbine, my son Daniel, who was in a debate class, asked me at the dinner table if I knew there were loopholes in the Brady bill. I just said, 'No I didn't know that,' and that pretty much was the end of the conversation," Tom Mauser of Littleton, Colo., told the Criminal Justice and Public Safety Committee. "I was shocked, then, when my son was killed with a gun bought through one of those loopholes in the Brady bill," Mauser said. "I discovered that someone bought that gun and two other guns at a gun show from an unlicensed private seller to avoid creating a paper trail and having to undergo a background check."
Mauser spoke in favor of a bill to require that a national instant criminal background check be performed before the sale or transfer of a firearm at a gun show. The hearing on that and other bills to tighten Maine's gun sales laws came days after multiple shootings in Binghamton, N.Y., Pittsburgh and Graham, Wash.
America is falling asleep and must wake up and stop allowing death lovers and the NRA to control our laws.