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Buster Gammons















Monday, April 8, 2013

To: Senators Portman & Brown; Re: Background Checks, Etc.

Dear Senator,

I hope you watched 60 Minutes last night and listened to President Obama's speech today in Connecticut.  Four months have passed since the Sandy Hook slaughter.  The state of Connecticut acted quickly and wisely with sensible gun violence legislation.  So did the state of New York.

The time has come for the federal government to act with similar wisdom and sensibility.  Your president calls you to act.  So do your constituents.  At a bare minimum, you must make universal background checks the law of the land.  Background checks have wide public support.  At least, for now, do that.  And given the public support for restrictions on assault weapons and high-capacity magazines, and for a crackdown on illegal gun trafficking, you really should do those things as well.

But act you must.  Don't filibuster.  Vote!  And vote FOR all measures to lessen the terrible public health/public safety impacts of American gun violence.

This time, the gun issue will not just fade away, and we will be watching.  So please put aside the politics, forget the flippin' NRA, and just do the right thing.

Sincerely,
Buster Gammons


(Sent today to Rob Portman and Sherrod Brown. We shall see.)     

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  1. Joe ToddApril 10, 2013 at 6:32 AM

    Portman does have the ability to change his mind LOL. Several good posts Thanks

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