Below is a sampling of your comments, a few of which were edited for length and clarity. In fact, the guns restricted under the ban were not used in Columbine.
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In this case: Did was the 2nd amendment created with the expectation that America devolve into a place where mass shootings were a daily reality thanks to lax gun regulation?
Democrat lawmakers are planning a renewed push for gun control, but many doubt whether it will have any chance in a GOP-controlled congress. Several studies suggest that the Australian gun laws did reduce gun related suicides, but only weakly at best improved the homicide rate.
It has been established that no amount of legislation would prevent a madman from killing, even if all weapons are confiscated.
Before the rampage, the family of the gunman, Elliot O. Rodger, had feared that he was becoming unsafe and had even notified law enforcement.
Is this your new spokesman, gun-grabbers? Enforcing the current laws is all that is needed.
The Second Amendment Foundation (www.saf.org) is the nation’s oldest and largest tax-exempt education, research, publishing and legal action group focusing on the Constitutional right and heritage to privately own and possess firearms.
“There is a connection between regulating the formal market and the number of guns that enter the underground market”, Webster said. Each gun should have a unique serial number. The idea is to bring together moderate gun owners and entrenched gun voices – pro and con – to promote a cultural shift in the gun debate, favoring conversation about safety over political acrimony. There should be penalties for not meeting these requirements.
“Meanwhile, those losers amongst us – spinelessly discarding self-evident truth, logic, common sense and pure human instinct – continue to fall for the big lie of political correctness, and get cut down by murderous maniacs like blind sheep to slaughter.”
The White House had said that Obama was to meet privately with families of the victims but was not expected to make any statements about gun control. What has to be addressed are the HIPPA laws and the right of privacy for the mentally ill or disturbed. The people peddling these talking points have clearly never tried to buy a gun.
Mental illness is certainly at play. How anxious – seriously personally anxious – are you that you will be shot to death?
Sen. Chris Murphy has been an outspoken critic of Congress’s failure to pass any gun-control measure in reaction to the nation’s apparent epidemic of gun violence.
As for allowing open carrying, I’d prefer that to concealment.
“I feel like I’m driving a truck through a cement wall every day”, Bond said.
As President Obama said earlier this month, after the most recent outburst of violence – this time at a community college in rural Oregon – whatever we’ve been doing on the gun front, “It’s not enough”. They are the ones toting guns to crimes. They’re coming for your guns.
A second change would ensure that people are not allowed to buy guns without a completed background check. Stop the flow of illegals, drugs and arms into the U.S.by sealing the border with a double fence system, which works in San Diego and Israel, and then declare war on the gangs. Another way to look at that is: Gun sales exploded at a time when shootings of four or more people at a time are a near-daily occurrence. An armed citizen is a criminal’s worst nightmare. There are a lot of moving parts to gun reform. But with an estimated millions of guns already in circulation, most psychotics and people bent on crime won’t be.
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Still, general controls on gun sales may do little, by themselves, to block a determined mass killer. Your guns – they’re being come after. Hitler did that, and bragged about it. Castro did the same thing. Unless a threat is staring us right in the face, we blithely tell ourselves – subconsciously, of course – “It won’t happen to me”.
