But it is more likely to set back the cause of gun control.
There is no one single cause of gun violence and no single solution.
The fact that their actions bolster the cause of gun regulation is purely incidental.
For the cause of gun control it's been downhill ever since.
By Daniel Ford The New Yorker, May 12 , 1986P. 29 The assassination of a public figure renews interest, temporarily, in the cause of gun control.
It was hard, in the massacre's immediate aftermath, to find a presentable advocate for the view that the No. 1 cause of gun violence is a shortage of guns.
He is so dedicated to the cause of gun ownership ("The Second Amendment is really the First Amendment," he says) that skipping one more chance to influence an election is not an option.
But even that can be a source of dissonance — several of the pages have become magnets for extremists hawking the bizarre theory that the killings in Newtown were a hoax intended to advance the cause of gun control.
Edward Kennedy, who succeeded Dodd as the Senate's lead voice in the cause of gun control, addressed a closed session of the N.R.A.'s board of directors, saying, "It is apparent that nothing is being done by opponents of gun legislation to foster understanding, intelligent debate, and compromise".
Yet on a Sunday afternoon this month, Rabbi Mosbacher stood before an assembly of 200 clergy members, congregants, politicians and police officials in a North Jersey church to tell, in the cause of gun control, the story of his father's murder.
Proponents say the plans, which stand a good chance of being included in any final gun-control bill, would lead to some of the most significant advancements in years in treating mental illness and address a problem that people on both sides of the issue agree is a root cause of gun rampages.
