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There are some things we should all be able to agree on - and one of them is that rights always come with responsibilities, and that the mentally unstable shouldn't be able to buy guns.

Anyone that wants to purchase a gun in this country should be required to pass a simple background check. However, our patchwork of gun laws is rife with loopholes and too many dangerous people fall through the cracks. The result is that powerful weapons still end up in the hands of dangerous, unstable people.

A coalition of our nation’s mayors is pushing to fix the system. Mayors know the problem better than anyone - they have to deal with gun violence on our streets every day. So my friend Tom Menino, the mayor of Boston, and Michael Bloomberg, the mayor of New York, joined forces with 550 other mayors in our country to form Mayors Against Illegal Guns. They have a comprehensive plan to keep illegal guns off of our streets and fix our broken background system.

Today, at an event with Martin Luther King III and 34 victims of gun violence, they will be unveiling their common-sense plan to close the loopholes. They need you to add your voice to theirs to make sure the folks in Washington know that you are demanding that we have a real system that keeps guns out of the hands of unstable people.

Please click here and join with them in demanding we do what common sense says we can do to make sure the next Jared Loughner won’t be able to buy guns.

Look, this isn’t about taking guns away from anyone who wants to buy them legally. It’s simply a plan to fix the system we have so that it respects the rights of stable, law abiding citizens but keeps guns out of the hands of those who shouldn’t have them.

Previous tragedies, from the Robert Kennedy and Martin Luther King assassination in the 60’s, to the mass shootings on the Long Island Railroad in the early 90’s, have pushed our nation to look deeply at gun violence -- to update laws with common sense -- and we owe it to ourselves to do the same now.

So please click here to join our nation’s mayors in demanding common sense action.

Thank you for all you do.

Sincerely,
John Kerry

Pacifist wrote:Don't feel too bad. There are those of us who marvel at the fact that anyone has ever voted for him.

puma guy wrote:Arizona "Honor Killing" Muslim man's daughter was too Westernized, so he killed his her and ran over her boyfriend's mother.
Faleh Hassan Almaleki didn’t just hit his late daughter, Noor, with his vehicle: After he initially struck her with his American Jeep Grand Cherokee, he made sure he totally finished her off by running over her face and spine before fleeing. His defense? His culture allows it due to the practice of honor killing.

Where are the Mayors Against Jeeps? (Mayors Against Cherokees would be profiling, wouldn't it?) Where is the outrage?

The Annoyed Man wrote:...nothing more than a fancy haircut looking for a brain to cover.

cbunt1 wrote:

The Annoyed Man wrote:...nothing more than a fancy haircut looking for a brain to cover.

Love that line, TAM. Mind if I 'Borrow' it?