Since was a little boy I have heard how slow our government is to react or get the simplest of projects started and completed. Over my adult years I have heard the same comment thousands of times. The reality is, governments do move slowly for a variety of reasons, most of which should be embarrassing to members of Congress.

I do however, have a new plan for getting projects before the different government agencies and moved on through the different government agencies in a timely manner. Do not go to your congressman or senator. Go to the National Rifle Association (NRA) and ask them to present your project or plan to your representatives. Apparently, members will sit up and listen when the most powerful lobbyist speak. Or, you could go to Grover Norquist, the guy elected by no one, and pay him to be on your side.

MAYBE we should just stop voting all together and go to the more powerful lobbyist and paying them to help us. The Tennessee Press Association has to pay a lobbyist just to protect the public's First Amendment rights in the state's Legislature. The NRA has been very successful in protecting their VERY distorted interpretation of the Second Amendment, that is unless they have convinced people like John McCain the NRA is, in fact, a legitimate militia, as is required by the amendment.

It is very interesting that some in Congress now are talking about recent events of mass murder as not being about guns but about the mentally ill. They could have cared less about the millions of citizens, and their families, suffering from mental illness before Sandy Hook. Now, it is a big deal because the NRA says so.

The events like Sandy Hook bring up many issues, and not one of them has exclusive responsibility, but suddenly putting Band-Aids on one of them is not going to do anything but make the citizens of this country have even less respect for the members of Congress.

The issues of gun control, the mentally ill, the public’s fear of getting involved because of the possibility of future litigation, are all elements we have to deal with and we cannot let lobbyist and special interest groups keep us from dealing with them.