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 “We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare of, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.”  There it is:  the Preamble.  Our nation’s “mission statement.”  I know it by heart.  Truly with heart and soul.  Sometimes I have to sing the song that goes with it, but I have it committed to memory.  Because I believe in it.  Because it matters.

It’s been five years since the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School where twenty precious first graders and six educators were gunned down in cold blood as they were seated in their classrooms. It was a moment that shook me to my core. It was a moment that shook the nation. It was a moment that surely would change our nation’s gun laws, right?  It was that moment that changed so many of us. But would it be enough to change the mind of our Congressman Leonard Lance?