Hard Copy:
In the Times
18 March 2013

¶ Let us all follow Gabrielle Giffords’s call to shame the Senators who voted against the progressive gun legislation that everyone in this country, except for a few nuts and dolts, wants, and yesterday.

They will try to hide their decision behind grand talk, behind willfully false accounts of what the bill might have done — trust me, I know how politicians talk when they want to distract you — but their decision was based on a misplaced sense of self-interest. I say misplaced, because to preserve their dignity and their legacy, they should have heeded the voices of their constituents. They should have honored the legacy of the thousands of victims of gun violence and their families, who have begged for action, not because it would bring their loved ones back, but so that others might be spared their agony.

¶ No less important, in the long run, is Mark Bittman’s demand for a gender-neutral home ec program in our schools.

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