Gun control movement tries to shed election losing reputation

[UnrepentantLiberal]

By David Ingram
Reuters
Dec 15, 2012

WASHINGTON - Even before the mass shooting on Friday at a Connecticut elementary school, gun control advocates were making a furious push to convince U.S. lawmakers that their long-ignored issue was a political winner.

Their argument was that support for restrictive new laws is not a career-ender for politicians and that they might even benefit at the polls by opposing the pro-gun rights National Rifle Association.

Gun control groups are attempting to turn upside-down the politics of guns after nearly two decades in which the pro-gun rights lobby has effectively blocked any major new gun restrictions. A ban on certain semiautomatic rifles known as assault weapons was allowed to expire in 2004.

Their success or failure could determine whether national legislation materializes after the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, that left 26 dead, including 20 children between the ages of 6 and 7.

More: http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/12/16/us-usa-shooting-public-opinion-idUSBRE8BF01L20121216

[bongbong]

1. Misleading thread title

I would have named it "Gun Nuts Try To Prove They're Not Clinically Insane".

[UnrepentantLiberal]

2. I don't have a problem with that.