While the so-called Thune amendment that would have allowed permited people to carry concealed weapons across state lines was of questionable quality, the decision of the Coalition to Stop Gun Violence to use Tom Mauser, father to one of the victims of the Columbine Massacre a decade ago, holding up his son's shoes was disgusting politics. The Columbine shootings did not involve concealed weapons or buying weapons across state lines. This was just an attempt to guilt voters into calling Senators Mark Udall and Michael Bennett for having the gall to support the amendment while being Democrats. And it was sick, sympathy politics that denegrates a terrible event in recent history.
