What We Won: Background Checks?
So it looks like that's all we're going to get. After all the blood that was spilled in Newtown, and Aurora and the 14 other mass killings last year, we're just getting background checks. Which, the Republicans, bless their hearts, want to emasculate even further by requiring that no records be kept of the checks. After all the tragedy and grief and promises to make it stop, we're getting background checks. That's it. Some say background checks are a huge step in the right direction. But why do I feel so defeated? And it's not even 100% sure that Congress, when it returns from recess, will even vote in that. I think back to December 14 often and how I was driving to an after-school homework club for elementary school students when I heard some local radio jocks talking in muted voices about a shooting. It took a second before I realized, hey. They're talking about a real shooting. And can it be, kids died? I continued driving and the facts b...