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Saturday, May 4, 2013

Bill Moyers Interviews The Parents Of Six Year Old Gunned Down In Newtown Massacre

Francine Wheeler (screenshot via whitehouse.gov)
Via Moyers & Company. Bill Moyers and Michael Winship

Sandy Hook Parents: There will be change. There has to be.

By Bill Moyers and Michael Winship
May 3, 2013 
You want to believe with all your heart that this is one promise that will be kept. But arrayed against them are mighty forces, mountains of money, a corrupted political system, and habits deeply ingrained in the human psyche.
But Gregg Lee Carter, the editor of the encyclopedia Guns in American Societytold the Center for Public Integrity:
“The issue is not so much how much the NRA gives any senator or member of the House, it’s how they can make their lives miserable. And how they make their lives miserable is they e-mail ’em, they call ’em, they fax ’em, they show up at meetings… They’re much more activist than the other side and that’s what really produces their gains.”
Hold that image in your head and in your heart, so emblematic of a country that has taken leave of its senses. Remember all the dead from all the solitary shootings and all the massacres. Some senators suggest there may be another vote on background checks before the end of the year. If, as David Wheeler suggested to us, this is a tipping point for the movement against gun violence, the moment has come to push harder than ever.
Make the promise: THIS TIME THERE WILL BE CHANGE.


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