(Part one of two)  There was a flurry of responses immediately after the shooting concerning possible new gun safety regulations. Even a few Republicans seemed willing to consider some minimal change. Now, two weeks later, there is mostly silence. It is a scenario that has been repeated too many times to count.—Pat Perriello  as if the National Council of Catholic Bishops would do anything to disturb their relationship with their misogynist friends in the Republican Party.  “The Lord has made known his salvation” (Psalm 98:2a), which does not rest on either “artificial” means of birth control or aborting one-cell human zygotes.