Fair enough, but where have gun control groups been the past ten years?
President Barack Obama received a failing grade from the a gun control advocacy group on Monday.Every year or so we have a major gun eruption in this country, whether it's the DC shooter, Fort Hood, Columbine, the shooting at the school in Virginia, the shooting at the Holocaust Museum, and where have the anti-gun groups been to channel the anger and fear over these tragedies into greater gun control? It's time our gun control groups, if they even still exist, started borrowing a page from the GOP playbook. A Republican would know what to do. Then again, the gun control groups are no different than any other liberal advocacy group over the past decade. Missed opportunity is their middle name.
The Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence blasted the president, whom the group endorsed in 2008, for not having taken significant steps to advance gun control laws.
"It's been a very disappointing year for us, especially considering what he campaigned on," the group's president, Paul Helmke, said during an appearance on MSNBC. "This year they ran away from the issue, and actually signed two repeals of good gun legislation."
