"Newtown families vow to keep fighting for new gun laws; Voice disgust in wake of Senate rejection of bills" by Michele Salcedo | Associated Press, April 22, 2013
WASHINGTON — Disappointment. Disgust. Grossly unfair.
That’s how some families who lost loved ones in December’s massacre at a Connecticut elementary school feel after the Senate’s defeat this past week of the most far-reaching gun control legislation in two decades, and they pledged to keep fighting for measures to prevent gun violence.
Neil Heslin, Erica Lafferty, and Carlee Soto were among the Newtown, Conn., family members who spent a week on Capitol Hill describing how their loved ones died at Sandy Hook Elementary School on Dec. 14.
Crisis actors.
But their stories of horror and heroism were no match for a threat from the National Rifle Association to rate the vote, and concern from Republicans and a small band of rural-state Democrats....
Props that then went on TV.
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Related: Gun Legislation Jammed
Also see: Sandy Hook Hoax?
I hate to keep spit-balling that one, but you know....
