Congresswoman Carolyn McCarthy’s Lonely Crusade for Smarter Gun Control

Well before the latest atrocity in Aurora, Colo., she has been championing the cause of sensible gun limitations—and, given the toxic politics of Capitol Hill, getting nowhere. The New York congresswoman has more than 100 co-sponsors for her bill to limit the number of rounds in a single magazine to 10, so the shooter of an assault weapon would have to pause to reload after getting off 10 shots. That pause to reload is what allowed unarmed citizens to stop the shooter that killed McCarthy’s husband and seriously hurt her son as they commuted home on the Long Island Railroad in 1991.

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