Bernie Sanders: Guns In Vermont Are Not The Same As Guns In Chicago Or Los Angeles

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14. Joe's deflecting from his failure to get any gun control laws passed after SandyHook.

Obama put him in charge of gun control legislation and he failed. Joe says only he can get things done in Congress, but I'm not so sure.

https://www.politico.com/story/2015/10/joe-biden-gun-control-effort-sandy-hook-214644

Six weeks after their reelection, the president put Joe Biden in charge of the most serious push for gun control in decades, sparked by the massacre of children at Sandy Hook Elementary. It seemed like the moment when national outrage might lead to congressional action.

Biden did not deliver.

Four months after Biden took on the mission, a modest measure to require expanded background checks died on the Senate floor.

POLITICO interviews with more than a dozen people involved in the effort show that Biden made several strategic missteps that delayed action and may have sacrificed the emotional pull that offered a chance to break a historic logjam. He urged grieving families who wanted to take their case to Capitol Hill to go home, trying to protect them from difficult conversations.