Gun Control, not a hot topic

Steven Barton, a shooting victim of last summer’s Aurora Colorado movie theater shooting, states that in the next presiden'ts term 48,000 people will be murdered with guns.  He appeared in an advertisement asking the presidental candidates to make gun control a national debate topic.




The candidates seem to agree in part in this brief discussion on gun control in the town hall debate.  The Fast and Furious scandal is brought up by Romney during the debate.  Interesting.
Obama earns three Pinocchios for his comments about Fast and Furious. His factual error sends a message that the previous administration is responsible for gun walking and Operation Fast and Furious.

A NYTimes blog states “The omission of guns might be shrugged off were it not for the fact that the debate took place in Denver, minutes by car from two of the worst massacres in modern American history — the shootings at Columbine High School in 1999 and at a movie theater in Aurora, Colo., less than three months ago. To be in that corner of the country and make no mention of gun violence was somewhat like traveling to northern Japan and saying nothing about its nuclear crisis.”