Boston Globe: Prospects limited for new gun control laws

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http://bostonglobe.com/news/nation/2013/03/07/after-newtown-gun-control-push-gains-steam-both-and-off-capitol-hill/J5ETHo9Sq6tu6v3WC5tetL/story.html

Prospects limited for new gun control laws
By David Uberti
| Globe Correspondent

March 07, 2013

WASHINGTON — Advocates for stricter gun controls have more money this year, more energy, the president’s backing, and the national outrage over the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre on their side. But there already is a sense in Washington that they will have to settle for more modest gains in the months ahead than an assault weapons ban or sharp limits on magazine capacity.

Just how much the shootings last year in Newtown, Conn. — as well as the mass shooting in a movie theater in Aurora, ­Colo. — have changed the political climate will be tested Thursday when the Senate Judiciary Committee reviews a series of proposals to curb gun violence.

“If we don’t get [gun control] this time, we never will,” said Mayor Thomas M. Menino of Boston, who cochairs a gun-control advocacy group, Mayors Against Illegal Guns, with Mayor Michael Bloomberg of New York...

Too bad, Tommy...

[geckosfeet]

1. .

[Eleanors38]

2. Why does Menino think "we never will?" Curious fatalism.

[iiibbb]

3. more drama that way

[Eleanors38]

5. It goes to the reckless consequences of gun-control extremism...

By demanding sprawling bans, unworkable controls, punitive taxes, etc., and rejecting other proposals as "NRAtalkingpoints" while gratuitously insulting the makers of those proposals, then extreme controller/banners have fulfilled their own prophecy:

Encouraged the conditions for another mass shooting until the hideous practice becomes increasingly routine, not quite as real as the preceding event, and more easily "tuned out" in our hand-held and individuated culture.

[av8r1998]

6. Because...

Gun Control is generally unpopular.
It has gotten some legs because of Sandy Hook, but at the end of the day, 1/2 of American Households have guns.
Doesn't it tell you something that all of these groups work so hard to convince people that they "support the 2nd Amenment"?
Mike Bloomberg stated some months ago that nobody has done more than him to protect the 2nd amendment.

[ileus]

4. Let's work hard to make sure they never will.

[PuffedMica]

7. Prospects for next election being evaluated by politicians

The conclusions being drawn by Congressmen and Senators up for reelection in close districts is gun control could be a swing factor in a close election. More than a few are playing it smart and staying as far away from gun control as they can.

[ProgressiveProfessor]

8. The group "Mumbles" Menino co-chairs has a felony rate well in excess of gun owners