January 14, 2016 5:12 AM

The question is when we'll be sick and tired enough to demand common sense gun control

President Barack Obama took one small step for slowing down the senseless slaughter of Americans, one giant leap for common sense. By making it ever so slightly tougher for people to purchase unnecessary high-powered weaponry, Obama did exactly what the overwhelming majority of Americans favor. According to a recent Quinnipiac poll, 89 percent of Americans think requiring background checks on gun purchases at gun shows or online is a hell of a good idea. In households where there are already guns, that number plummets down to … 84 percent. The reason for this is simple: we’re sick and tired of gun deaths.

No society can claim to be moral when it acquiesces to the murder of children as the price of securing a freedom. Yet that’s exactly the quandary America finds itself in today. We’ve allowed a tiny cabal of heartless zealots who care more for their guns than they do for human life to set the tone of the debate surrounding common sense gun control. It’s not even a debate, to be honest; Congress has long since been purchased lock, stock, and barrel by the National Rifle Association (NRA) and the gun industry. Any concern for human life- whether children or adult- has long since left the building. Congress refuses even to fund scientific studies of gun violence, perhaps because their owners fear the results may not break in their favor. The less we know empirically, the greater the window for deniability by Proudly Closed-minded Gun Control Foes ©.

We may be “sick and tired of gun deaths,” but we’ve done a damned poor job of turning that anger and disgust into tangible action. Even the barest hint that someone in a position of power may even consider discussing gun control is met with peals of righteous anger and outrage. Nine out of ten Americans favor common sense gun control…and yet it’s the one of ten who control the tone and tenor of the debate.

President Obama took small common sense steps that will result in exactly ZERO guns being taking away from Americans…yet if you listen to the NRA, you’d think the government jackbooted thugs are about to begin knocking down doors, cracking heads, and taking guns from law-abiding citizens. Worse, we- the nine out of ten Americans who favor common sense gun control- allow this sort of madness to continue unabated.

Until we demand change…and back those demands by exercising our power at the ballot box, we have no hope of saving the lives of children who will be killed in the next school massacre…and the one after that…and that one after that…ad infinitum, ad nauseum.

If not now, when?

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