Will we ever get real gun control in Orange County and the United States?

This week 68 House Democrats were sitting in the House of Representatives chambers.  Georgia’s long-term House member John Lewis, a leader in the sit-in, said, “we have been too quiet for too long.  There comes a time when you have to say something. You have to make a little noise. You have to move your feet. This is the time.  Now is the time to get in the way. The time to act is now. We will be silent no more.”

Our area representatives, David Price and GK Butterfield, were in this sit-in.

But, meanwhile House Speaker Ryan had adjourned the House chambers until the Fourth of July.  This shuts the chamber officially down and Speaker Ryan says that this was nothing but a publicity stunt and I believe in one sense he is right and wrong at the same time.

Where will this go?

I always say when someone asks, “How are you, Wes?” I say that I am hopeful.

I wish I could really be hopeful on effective and real restriction on the gun issue after continuing killing.  But, I’m not.

A Republican Rep. said, “I’m going to go home and buy a new gun.”

I hear that there are more guns than people in the United States.  What the people will tolerate is what we will get.

 

— Wes Hare

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