Any measure that lessens the sheer number of unsecured weapons is progress. And if it prevents one child from harm it's worth it. Anything that these Congress critters do is better than nothing which is what they normally do. To accuse OWS of rejecting help from a congressman seems dubious. I don't believe that. Also true that they should have been protesting for single payer when they had a chance. They should have stood up for OWS and someone should have cared when they literally stole our SS trust fund. They took our money and gave it to the wall Street crooks who lost it so we had to bail them out and you know what , they still are doing the same stuff now. That they don't care about.
We had an assault weapons ban called the Brady bill fromm1984 until the shrub allowed it to expire in 2004. ( Don't think that the political coup that made shrub the President did not have anything to do with that ban expiring ,it had everything to do with it) The supreme Court has ruled that the public may not posses military grade weapons. The second amendment not withstanding you cannot own a cannon, a missile a hand grenade. You can't have a machine gun an automatic weapon. The assault weapons are automatic weapons. They may be single shot automatic weapons but they are automatic weapons. They should not be sold to general public people.
Smart weapon technology is coming , fight progress all you like , progress always wins. Its undefeated. 30 day waiting periods are going to be the law. We must take this issue seriously. It past time to take the NRA on.