It’s unfortunate that nothing was done then. Idon’t follow politics closely enough to offer speculation about why that’s the case. My best guess would be he was focused on the Recession and Obamacare. You can’t fix everything simultaneously.
It also doesn’t really have anything to do with what we can and should do now.
We can sit here all day pointing fingers and talking about what we should’ve done in the past, or we could do something about it right now.
Well you have quite a few democrats out there calling republicans all kinds of names because they have the control but aren't going to do anything. I see that as hypocritical and political grand standing when the reverse was true not that long ago. Also Obama had it on his agenda and Eric Holder mentioned it as well. Nothing was even attempted until after Sandy Hook.