Blog assignment 3

This article was written by a board of journalists at the New York Times to convince the American people that we need to talk about gun laws and regulations. The article argues that Republican lawmakers are attempting to delay discussing the issue to buy time to distract the public with other events. The article further shows that the Republicans have made the same argument after every mass shooting to give it more time and to not politicize a tragedy. The article reasons that since no move has been made after any prior mass shootings that it is just a delay tactic because they don’t want to address the issue. I agree that this is a major contribution to the issue of regulating and controlling firearms. With most people not paying attention to news past the first week of its occurrence, if the issue is not addressed immediately then people will forget about it. Since this has happened at most previous mass shootings Republican lawmakers cannot claim ignorance as to their delay tactics aftereffects. We need to talk about gun control, we need to do it now, and we need to keep discussing it until a real solution is found, because we obviously haven't yet.