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In Washington, bills were being drafted to step up background checks, create no-gun zones around members of Congress and ban the big-volume magazines that allowed the Tucson gunman to shoot so many bullets so fast.

Gun control advocates say they believe the shock of the attack has altered the political atmosphere, in no small part because one of the victims is a member of Congress.

“I really do believe that this time it could be different,” said Paul Helmke, executive director of the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence.

Yet gun rights advocates and lawmakers on both sides of the aisle said Thursday that there was little chance the attack would produce significant new legislation or a change in a national culture that has long been accepting of guns.

If anything, they said, lawmakers are less receptive than ever to new gun restrictions.

If the politically sophisticated N.R.A. has struck a quiet pose, the Crossroads of the West gun show will go on as planned this weekend at the Pima County Fairgrounds, 13 miles from the shooting site; another gun show is scheduled for the next weekend.

“We had no hesitation about going ahead with the show so soon after the incident,” said Lois Chedsey, secretary to the Arizona Arms Association, a show sponsor. “Gun sales have been up since last Saturday. (NYTimes)

Once again, we cried, we sighed, we held our breath in disbelief. We looked for some kind of answer, some kind of common ground, some kind of solution…and found none.

What seems to me to actually be an evil experience in this country, chilling most of us, should call upon bipartisan, bilateral, bi-human cooperation in addressing, solving and stopping it from happening again. But most likely it will be a blimp on the history charts of this nation, most likely debated, discussed and dropped, until we all experience the nightmare once more, and respond by saying how did this happen this time? Gun control, nope how about addressing the question correctly, life control!

In rolling out their "Pledge to America" last year, House Republicans repeatedly cited Congressional Budget Office research as proof President Obama's health care overhaul was too expensive. But when a new CBO analysis found that the GOP's health law repeal bill would itself add billions to the deficit, Republican leaders dismissed the conclusions as irrelevant. (Washington Times)

House To Resume Health Care Repeal Effort Next Week
After a weeklong pause in legislative business to honor the victims of the Arizona massacre, House Republicans intend to resume regular congressional business next week with a vote to repeal the health care law, a top GOP aide said Thursday (CNN)

In the state of California, the major health insurance carrier, Blue Cross, is about to lambast the state and its insurance policy holders with anywhere from a 30 to 66% increase in rate charges. People in this state as in other states either have insurance they can afford, prioritize paying for insurance they can’t afford, but know they need, go without insurance because more immediate items such as food, rent demand their dollars, or just allow themselves to get sick hoping eventually they will heal without any lasting scars.

We hear that Obama care is a job cutting program. We don’t hear about those who are too sick to work either being fired from their jobs, or working less hours due to illness. We hear that it is unconstitutional to have people take health insurance. We don’t hear about those who are so ill that counties must pay for their visits to the emergency room, family and neighbors must find them ways to alleviate the pain and suffering, individuals just rot on the shelf like rotten vegetables.I suppose it is more constitutional to let that happen.

Let’s control the socialist tendency to take over health care, let’s control job growth, but let’s not discuss the cost of life control.

In this nation where we pride ourselves in such sayings as “In God We Trust”, “one nation under God”, what have we done with God when it comes to controlling the quality of life? For all those religious zealots who own an arsenal of guns, who protest (with their guns in their holsters) against health care, who proclaim this to be a Christian nation, who ask “what would Jesus do”? Where is your inspiration when it comes to keeping people healthy, people safe, and what about people’s quality of life?

It seems that a whole bunch of self righteous, self pious, self serving people who say they have Gods ear have no idea what God is saying when they refuse to discuss Gun Control, Universal Health Insurance and the lack of the quality of life. I am so amazed that anyone can not sit down as they discuss this and that, not even mention that at the bottom of this and that are lives, not only lives, but some kind of quality to each and everyone of those lives. Just amazing!