Twenty U.S. senators spent much of Sunday and Monday praising themselves for reaching what they called "a commonsense, bipartisan proposal" on federal gun legislation.
The news media and gun safety groups fell into line, observing that the proposal, if enacted by Congress, would be "the most significant national response in decades to acts of mass gun violence," said John Feinblatt, president of Everytown for Gun Safety.
Let's hope the senators don't break their arms patting themselves on the back. For anyone interested in enacting truly effective measures to stem the tide of gun violence in this country, the senators' announcement might be profoundly depressing.
