Oh-For-Three (Three Years, That Is)

Today marks the three-year anniversary of the slaughter at Sandy Hook Elementary in Newtown, Connecticut.  Our Republican-controlled U.S. Congress has done literally nothing about gun violence in those three years.  Nothing.



A few months ago, one cynic -- a journalist from the Telegraph -- put it this way:

But we can't just give up.  As the NY Times editorial linked below put it, despair is not an option. 

The editorial gave several sensible proposals.  Broad public support is a given, a no-brainer.

We must insist that Congress breaks free from the financial clutches of the NRA.  Only then will change be possible.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/13/opinion/sunday/despair-over-gun-deaths-is-not-an-option.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rss

Yes, contact your elected representatives.  Tell them how you feel about three years of inaction on our gun violence epidemic.  Demand that they renounce the NRA, resign from it, and take no money from it ever again.

Contact any or all of these organizations and get involved, make a donation.  Do not give up.  We have an obvious gun problem -- so many mass shootings we lose track of them!  It's not "bearable." 

Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence
http://www.bradycenter.org/

Mayors Against Illegal Guns
http://www.mayorsagainstillegalguns.org/

Americans For Responsible Solutions
http://www.responsiblesolutions.org/

Moms Demand Action
http://www.momsdemandaction.org/

Everytown For Gun Safety
http://www.everytown.org/

Newtown Action Alliance
http://www.newtownaction.org/