NRA controls Congress
As we attempt to make sense out of the senseless: the slaughter and maiming of innocents at a social services center in San Bernardino, California, it is chilling to recognize that if the savages who perpetrated it had been on a terrorist watch list, they would still have been able to legally purchase an arsenal of weapons and explosives.
That is because the National Rifle Association, which owns and commands virtually every legislative body in the nation, believes that the rights of “law abiding gun owners” will be infringed if the potential terrorist were limited in his or her purchases of materiel designed to kill. Is this sane policy?
聽At the national level, my U. S. Rep. Tim Murphy, R-Upper St. Clair, a psychologist has proposed a laudable omnibus bill designed to address the mental health component of our inordinately high level of domestic carnage, but he dare not cross the NRA by taking on the proliferation of weapons designed to kill in rapid fire.
聽President Obama now must devote an increasing level of time and effort to comforting and expressing the outrage of a nation as we endure the latest horror. What will it take for us to wake up?
Oren M. Spiegler
Upper Saint Clair