To change gun laws,
change Congress
February 18. 2018
By The Day Editorial
Board
Every country has
people with mental illness and serious emotional problems, a smaller percentage
with violent tendencies.
But, aside from lawless nations confronting anarchy,
the United States stands alone in providing such easy access to guns designed to
kill many people fast.
So, yes,
as
President Trump noted
after the latest slaughter of innocents at a Florida high
school,
the nation should do more to help people struggling with mental
illness.
But what it must certainly do, and what the president and his
Republican Party refuse to do,
is control access to these WMDs — weapons of
mass death.
It is also worth
noting that even on the issue of mental health,
Trump’s call for action drips
with insincerity.
His just-released budget proposal seeks massive cuts
to
Medicaid
that would dramatically reduce access to the nation's mental health
care system
for
millions of low-income individuals.
Likewise the administration
continues to
undermine the Affordable Care Act without proposing an alternative
program.
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Norwich Resident Report
For those trying to
equate banning assault weapons
with a woman's right to choose to continue a
pregnancy or not:
If you could stop a
criminal that can either destroy 5 thousand embryos or kill five thousand six
year old children, which do you choose
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