Government,
Constitutional Law
Jun. 9, 2022
Scapegoating detracting from meaningful gun reform
The NRA doesn’t care that children have died as a result of their politicking, and they’re not even pretending they do anymore. What’s a few more lives so long as the checks keep clearing?
Eugene M. Hyman
Judge (Ret.)
Santa Clara County Superior Court
Santa Clara Univ Law School
Eugene is a retired judge of the Santa Clara County Superior Court, where for 20 years he presided over cases in the criminal, civil, probate, family and delinquency divisions of the court. He has presided over an adult domestic violence court and in 1999 presided over the first juvenile domestic violence and family violence court in the United States.
Our leaders are mechanically going through the motions in response to the tragedy in Uvalde, sharing platitudes and pointing fingers at the appointed scapegoats. As they did after Parkland and Sandy Hook, legislators will bicker about the latest cause de jour for the next few weeks, before moving on without accomplishing anything meaningful.
In a rare show of bipartisan unity, bad actors on the left and right seem to have settled on this t...
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