[rktman]

Thank God king hussein would never stoop to such tawdry things like using these emotionally distraught families to further his agenda. I accept their pain and anguish. What I don't accept is their totally irrational thought process egged on by the brady bunch and gabby giffords and her disgraceful hubby mark kelly-giffords. Not one of the proposed pieces of legislation would have prevented or will prevent these types of acts. Wake up folks and hammer your congress critters.

[C. Edmund Wright]

Being a victim family is now a budding cottage industry - as we saw with 9-11 families. To be sure, losing a loved one is traumatic, but we all lose them in mundane ways all the time. Having to surrender our rights and our common sense to the whims of certain select victim classes is one of the many dynamics destroying our liberty.

[Psalm 73]

Should read:
“Victims turn prostitutes - Obama as their pimp”

[longtermmemmory]

sanctimonious.

we now have 12 cindy shehans dancing on coffins.

[ilgipper]

Shouldn’t we be able to invoke our right to privacy, as established in 1973, to protect our rights to own firearms?

[envisio]

I believe that any American has the right to lobby congress for any reason whatsoever.

Even if they want to lobby congress to turn this country into a complete communist state. They have the RIGHT to do it.

“I don’t agree with you but I will fight to the death to defend your right.....”

These families intentions are misguided and wrong, but they have every right to lobby for whatever reason they want.

That is American.

Now I would hope our congress critters will make the right choice. But as far as what these people are doing, they are Americans, they have the right to do it.

[shove_it]

If you’re not in the state or district of any of these congress clowns, they won’t respond to your emails. Why should they meet with any protest group outside their constituency?

[Lancey Howard]

The rats are the party that uses funerals as staging grounds for campaign rallies. Can anybody be surprised when the rats turn around and manipulate the families of victims of violence (9-11, Newtown) for political advantage?

[Missouri gal]

First thing for any elected leader should do is check and make sure the so-called families of victims are really who they claim to be,and not just a bunch of lobbyist posers. Why do I think the meeting would melt into a non-meeting?

[freeandfreezing]

I wonder if anyone had the nerve to ask them how many young children, the same age as their kids, are killed every week by their parents or caregivers. As tragic as the massacre in Newtown, CT was, every week more young kids are killed by their own parents than were killed by Adam Lanza. And rarely with guns.

In almost every case mental health issues are present.

So how come those parents from Newtown, and a bevy of politicians and media personalities haven't ever been bothered by a Newtown a week for years?

One reason - their real motivation is disarming the population, and sadly the parents from Newtown are exploiting the death of their own children to advance a political agenda.

Maybe they'll realize the problem isn't what law abiding gun owners do, but what people with mental health problems do. Addressing those issues could save thousands of young children every year.

[july4thfreedomfoundation]

Just look at how many people get killed by drunk drivers every year, yet we never see the victims’ families lobbying Congress to ban the sale and/or possession of liquor, beer or wine. Nor do we hear calls for lower speed limits or for the banning of automobiles with powerful engines.