Following relatively buttoned-up remarks by FBI Director Robert Mueller, Mr. Dupnik again addressed issues such as antigovernment fervor, lax guncontrol and what he views as a failed system to deal with the mentally ill.
The centerpiece of a Democrat-led gun-control effort a plan to expand the system of background checks aimed at detecting buyers ineligible to own guns failed in a 54-46 vote, six votes shy of the 60 needed to advance.
Frank Lautenberg of New Jersey, a staunch advocate of guncontrol and public infrastructure and a champion of the Amtrak railroad system, announced Thursday he will not seek re-election in 2014.
Not being an expert in guncontrol or an advocate one way or the other, I do know the current system does not work and it is time for people on both sides ot the debate to agree that saving lives is an important enough goal to change the system.
Gun-control advocates have helped highlight these flaws, but some also worry that focus on the system's holes will be used as an excuse to block legislation requiring universal use of the background check system.