Gens. David Petraeus and Stanley McCrystal Join Forces on Gun Control

We elect folks to not just get a paycheck in Washington but to earn their pay. When they toss their hands up in the air and refuse to actually find answers, we're paying them for doing nothing. 

Folks have a right to own guns but others have a right to live without them. So when will Congress actually think about that and do something?

Gun control group enlists Petraeus and other vets to help curb violence
Stars and Stripes
Alex Horton
June 15, 2016

“Veterans are folks that understand firearms and weapons. These are people who swore an oath to defend the Constitution, which includes the Second Amendment,” Kelly said. "At the same time, we have a problem with more than 30,000 people dying from gun violence and have to act.”

Retired Gen. David Petraeus at a Senate hearing in September, 2015.

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SAN ANTONIO — A group of former senior military officials and veterans, including Gens. David Petraeus and Stanley McCrystal, have launched a veteran-focused gun law initiative. 

The initiative, Veterans Coalition for Common Sense, is spearheaded by Capt. Mark Kelly, a former Navy combat pilot and astronaut whose wife, Rep. Gabby Giffords, D-Ariz., was the target of an assassination attempt in 2011.

The couple jointly formed Americans for Responsible Solutions, a gun control advocacy group in the wake of the Newtown, Connecticut shootings in 2013 that left 27 dead, most of them children.

The new initiative splinters from that group and mobilizes veterans to urge lawmakers and stringent gun enthusiasts to rethink gun control access for domestic abusers and the mentally ill, in addition to people under FBI investigation, the group’s spokesman and advisers said Wednesday.
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