NRA's "The Connecticut Effect": The Newtown shooting = A setback that will blow over [View all]

[kpete]

How vile do you have to be to come up with a buzzword for a nation's reaction to the slaughter of twenty children and a half-dozen teachers?

The NRA has a name for 20 dead children: the 'Connecticut effect'

We have a strong agenda coming up for next year, but of course a lot of that’s going to be delayed as the “Connecticut effect” has to go through the process.

http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2013/02/11/1567931/nra-connecticut-effect/

WELCH: We have a strong agenda coming up for next year, but of course a lot of that’s going to be delayed as the “Connecticut effect” has to go through the process. [...] What’s even more telling is the people who don’t like guns pretty much realize that they can’t do a thing unless they talk to us. After Connecticut I had one of the leading Democrats in the legislature—he was with us most of the time, not all the time—he came to me and said, “Bob, I got all these people in my caucus that really want to ban guns and do all this bad stuff, we gotta give them something. How about we close this gun show loophole? Wouldn’t that be good?” And I said, “no, we’re not going to do that.” And so far, nothing’s happened on that.

http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2013/02/11/1567931/nra-connecticut-effect/