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<blockquote data-quote="moreluck" data-source="post: 1078179" data-attributes="member: 1246">Dereliction of duty ????&nbsp;&nbsp; Like not submitting a budget for years ???I wonder how many focus groups were needed to come up with this?Via <a href="http://washingtonexaminer.com/pelosi-coins-a-new-term-for-gun-control/article/2517892?custom_click=rss#.UOxl0JWuUlE" target="_blank">Beltway Confidential</a>:House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., has adopted a new term for gun control, “gun violence prevention,” in hopes that the euphemism will make it easier to marshal public opinion in favor of new gun laws as well as other policies designed to prevent shootings.

“If we come out of the Newtown experience and all we do is talk about it and not have a result,” Pelosi told <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/09/us/politics/after-newtown-congress-must-act-pelosi-says.html?hp" target="_blank">The New York Times</a>, “that would be a dereliction of duty on the part of us in public office. We must find a place where we can come to agreement on this.”

The paper added that “Pelosi said Democrats are no longer talking about gun control but refer instead to what she calls gun violence prevention — an effort by Democrats and their allies to find a less politically charged term, one that suggests a broader range of approaches beyond simply gun regulation.”
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[QUOTE="moreluck, post: 1078179, member: 1246"] Dereliction of duty ???? Like not submitting a budget for years ??? I wonder how many focus groups were needed to come up with this? Via [URL="http://washingtonexaminer.com/pelosi-coins-a-new-term-for-gun-control/article/2517892?custom_click=rss#.UOxl0JWuUlE"]Beltway Confidential[/URL]: [INDENT]House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., has adopted a new term for gun control, “gun violence prevention,” in hopes that the euphemism will make it easier to marshal public opinion in favor of new gun laws as well as other policies designed to prevent shootings. “If we come out of the Newtown experience and all we do is talk about it and not have a result,” Pelosi told [URL="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/09/us/politics/after-newtown-congress-must-act-pelosi-says.html?hp"]The New York Times[/URL], “that would be a dereliction of duty on the part of us in public office. We must find a place where we can come to agreement on this.” The paper added that “Pelosi said Democrats are no longer talking about gun control but refer instead to what she calls gun violence prevention — an effort by Democrats and their allies to find a less politically charged term, one that suggests a broader range of approaches beyond simply gun regulation.” [/INDENT] [/QUOTE]

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