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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsOrganizing for Action holds gun control Rally in CA. 3 people attend.
http://www.sbsun.com/news/ci_23464357/organizing-action-rallies-san-bernardino-gun-controlSAN BERNARDINO - Exactly six months after 20 children and six adults were killed at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., a small group from Organizing for Action stood here Friday with 26 flags and signs calling for stricter gun control.
"On Flag Day growing up, I used to always wave a flag with my grandson, and it hit me that the victims of that horrible tragedy won't ever be able to do that," said Curtis Lewis, the group's gun violence prevention coordinator. "We need people to stand up and write to Congress to say they want laws that respect the Second Amendment but also help prevent these tragedies."
Lewis said he supported HR 1565, a bill that would require background checks for sales at gun shows and online, "close the gun show and other loopholes," and create a commission to study the causes of mass violence in the United States.
The protest drew three members of Organizing for Action, a nonprofit group that supports President Barack Obama's agenda, to the National Orange Show Events Center.
"It's three people today, but it will be 23 next time, and we'll see the time after that," Lewis said.
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Organizing for Action holds gun control Rally in CA. 3 people attend. (Original Post)
Rod Walker
Jun 2013
OP
Possibly, the recent revelations about NSA snooping has us reconsidering our second amendment...
NYC_SKP
Jun 2013
#1
Maybe naming it the ‘‘... Second Amendment Rights Protection Act of 2013’’ had an adverse
AnotherMcIntosh
Jun 2013
#4
NYC_SKP
(68,644 posts)1. Possibly, the recent revelations about NSA snooping has us reconsidering our second amendment...
Or, Snooki is in town.
Control-Z
(15,684 posts)2. I thought California already had
some of the strictest gun safety laws in the country. It is a little confusing to me. Are the background checks for California purchasers? Or is this a federal law the group wants? With majority democratic representation and DiFi and Boxer in the senate, I wasn't aware that we needed representation above and beyond what we already have. I thought California's laws were pretty much good for the go and represented in DC as well.
Lifelong Protester
(8,421 posts)3. So, is there any reason why
you took the first and last name of WI's two most despised politicians?
Rod Walker
(187 posts)5. You're reading something into my handle that isn't there.
And speaking of reading...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tunnel_in_the_Sky
AnotherMcIntosh
(11,064 posts)4. Maybe naming it the ‘‘... Second Amendment Rights Protection Act of 2013’’ had an adverse
effect on generating support from gun-controllers.