An open letter to all elected officials on the Second Amendment | Norma Adams-Wade
Authorities say 28-year-old Audrey Hale burst through glass entry doors carrying two assault-style rifles and a handgun, then killed three nine-year-old students and three adults, including the school’s headmistress and the daughter of the lead pastor of the church that founded the school.
I know you are aware of Americans who say Congress and state legislators have no courage in the face of growing gun violence — stymied by fear of losing votes and status from constituents and powerful gun lobbyists. Yet I have to believe that those you may fear also are tired of the surging carnage and will not vote you out if you act and save lives.
I respectfully offer a paraphrased and reconstructed Carville-like analysis that may seem to be either an oversimplified or too-complicated solution:The Constitution’s Second Amendment, although ratified 232 years ago, today still seems to underly the partisan wrangling about gun laws, types of acceptable weapons, and who can buy and carry them. But a window may open, not easily, through which light may shine.
In recent years, Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., has been pushing to reactivate the ban, in that there was evidence that the ban did reduce mass shootings, though not so much general homicides. After the Covenant School mass shooting, president Joe Biden also has renewed his call for an assault weapons ban. Insiders, though, say that’s unlikely to happen.
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