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While the nation mourns the deaths of 20 children and six adults in the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre, some politicians have been extremely vocal about gun-control regulation change.

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Most vocal of all, and arguably the National Rifle Association’s (NRA) worst nightmare, New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg has been trucking his gun control advocacy relentlessly in the past week, calling for the president to make some major changes during an appearance on Meet The Press:

“It’s time for the President, I think, to stand up and lead,” the Mayor said on the program. “This should be his number one agenda. He’s President of the United States, and if he does nothing during his second term, something like 48,000 Americans will be killed with illegal guns.”

Bloomberg is known for being outspoken about his gun control sentiments, and on the same program he challenged the infamously “untouchable” NRA by saying that their power is “vastly overrated.”

In the wake of the Newtown, Conn. school shooting, Bloomberg appeared on NBC’s Meet The Press, addressing the notion that the National Rifle Association (NRA) has kept officials from taking action on the guns issue.

“The NRA’s number one objective this time was to defeat Barack Obama for a second term,” he said. “Last time I checked the election results, he won and he won comfortably. This myth that the NRA can destroy political careers is just not true.”

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He’s not the only politician who hasn’t shied away from the recycled gun-control conversation. Senator Dianne Feinstein of California has introduced a bill to Congress after this vacation that will severely limit the sale of assault weapons.

“It [the bill] will ban the sale, the transfer, the transportation and the possession,” the California senator said on NBC’s “Meet the Press.” “Not retroactively, but prospectively. And it will ban the same for big clips, drums or strips of more than 10 bullets.”

The initiative, she said, is to get war weapons off the street. 

While a handful of politicians are calling for the discussion to be front and center, the NRA has remained silent, as have pro-gun right senators.

For Sunday’s Meet The Press program, host David Gregory reached out to 31 of those lawmakers to share their views on gun-control, but each one declined. 

The gun-control talk seems to be gaining speed, as President Barack Obama spoke at a Newtown, Connecticut vigil on Sunday to honor the victims, saying that he would do anything in his power to stop mass shootings, however, he did not list specifics about how he would do that.

It’s clear that the time is now, but it’s sad that it took such a tragic event to bring this to the forefront.

SOURCE: Huffington Post