Theres no exact historical parallel to what president obama did today, especially the fact he has chosen to act alone through basically the administrative power he has as president rather than trying to go through congress. But president ial frustration with congress not acting on this issue, with congress being enthralled to the gun lobby, that is not unique to this administration. Even when other president s have been able to get more sweeping gun reforms done, it has been generations and generations now in which the gun lobby has so threatened congress that even the most modest gun reforms are barely possible. This bill as big as this bill is still falls short because we just could not get the congress to carry out the requests we made of them. The voices that blocked these safeguards were not the voices of an aroused nation. They were the voices of a powerful lobby, a gun lobby, that has prevailed for moment in an Election Year. We must complete the task with this long needed legis
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