Maybe some advocates of the bipartisan gun control legislation approved last week by the General Assembly really believe it has relevance to the atrocity at the school in Newtown last December.

Certainly such an atrocity calls out a need to honor its victims by giving it some meaning, and certainly with their overwrought vehemence some elected officials, like Governor Dannel Malloy and Senate President Donald Williams, have been trying very hard to believe or at least to seem to believe.