Now is the time to achieve common sense gun safety. Now is the time to insist, as a condition to either funding the Federal Government or raising the Debt Ceiling, that Congress enact legislation requiring that any person in possession of a firearm outside of their home have an approved trigger lock engaged at all times. NEGOTIATE THAT
It is long past time to take meaningful action to protect the citizens of the United States from the wave of gun violence that has assaulted America since the founding of the NRA. Now is the time to act.
Can we find forty-one Senators who will stand together to block any funding of the federal government or any attempt to raise the debt ceiling that is not tied to a Common Sense Gun Safety Law? Common sense dictates that possession of a firearm outside of the home be rendered safe. And the only safe firearm is one with a trigger lock engaged.
The Supreme Court has affirmed that the only individual right to keep and bear arms that is protected by the Second Amendment is the right to personal defense inside the home. So the slight intrusion on this right that would be caused by insisting that an approved trigger lock be engaged at all times when a firearm is possessed outside of the home would be a small price to pay for saving America.
And it will give us something to talk about in the negotiations over preventing the Second Great Depression. http://www.flickr.com/...