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BumRushDaShow

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3. I remember the last time he had to get up there

Reply to sheshe2 (Original post)

Sun Jun 12, 2016, 05:51 PM

Jun 2016

lamenting about having had to make yet another announcement. Yet there he was today. He's done what he could and even after the families and friends of the Sandy Hook victims made multiple attempts to lobby Congress in D.C., nothing happened.

It's not easy. It took Brady some 13 years after he and Reagan were shot to get some sort of ban in effect, that subsequently sun-setted.

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Obama: 'An act of terror and an act of hate' [View all] sheshe2 Jun 2016 OP

He looked 100 years old in the video of his statement auntpurl Jun 2016 #1

the mass murderer was on the terrorist watch list. Why could he buy a gun? Bucky Jun 2016 #2

I remember the last time he had to get up there BumRushDaShow Jun 2016 #3

I will never understand that, BRDS. sheshe2 Jun 2016 #4