President Obama Talks Gun Control
After Rep. Gabby Giffords (D-Ariz.) was shot more than two months ago, I and many others predicted that policymakers in Washington, D.C., would steer clear from taking up gun control (or even talking about the possibility of gun control) as an answer to this violence. Mostly, I’ve been correct.
But I would be remiss if I didn’t note President Obama’s Sunday op-ed published in the Arizona Daily Star that called for a few tiny changes — basically, better data — to improve background checks on gun buyers. It’s been lost amid all the terrible news from Japan — and it’s certainly not much of an effort to sway the debate — but here it is.
Meanwhile, as his wife recovers, Giffords’s husband Mark Kelly urged Americans to learn CPR, skills that he said people used to save lives on that otherwise tragic January day.