Not a communist, 13. An American who wants us to be all we can be and allow our children to grow up without being afraid of being killed at school.

You are in a bubble that is getting smaller every day. The President won the election by more votes then there are members of the NRA.

CNN has recently reported important information, including: U.S. gun owning population is on the decline with those gun owners stockpiling more firearms; 20 percent of the gun owners with the most firearms possessed about 65 percent of the nation’s guns; the U.S., with 5 percent of the world’s population, owns 50 percent of the world’s guns; the number of households owning guns has declined from almost 50 percent in 1973 to just over 32 percent in 2010.
The National Shooting Sports Foundation reported the economic impact of firearm sales—a figure that includes jobs, taxes and sales—hit $31 billion in 2011, up from $19 billion in 2008, which is an increase of 63 percent despite the economic recession. Fighting gun control has paid off for the gun industry.

No citizen has the right to have military assault weapons. Only a madman or criminal would think so.

You just seem to get stupider and stupider. Highing Blackwater at schools, who is going to pay their exhorbitant prices, will they be held responsible when they shoot an innocent person (they killed a large number of civilians in Iraq at some shootout then had immunity). Do you realize how many schools form elementary to high school there are in this country. Aside from your idea being asinine the logisics of trying to do this is overwhelming. How many Blackwater people per school are you going to hire – one per classroom. You never think about whsat you write you jsut put down some crazy statements. Sorry you are the biggest asshole on this site.

Blackwater (or whatever their new name) would probably be the first to open fire on the kids given their tendency to shoot first and ask questions later. I can see it now…”his hall pass looked threatening so I shot him.”

If thermonuclear devices were available to him he would have used that.
If he had to feed the bullets 1 at a time into his rifle far fewer people would have been killed.
If no gun was available to him this would not have happened.

For most shooters a semi-automatic is a better killing weapon than a full auto. Unless you are well trained, with a full auto your ammo goes very quickly and you have to reload much, much sooner. It requires some discipline not to just blow through a magazine. You have more problems keeping on target because of muzzle climb. With a semi and a high capacity magazine you can get a very rapid rate of fire ( how fast and often can you curl your finger), it is easier to keep your weapon on target or bring it back on target, easier to pick your targets without wasting ammo. For all these reasons and others, a semi-automatic in the hands of the average shooter is a deadlier, more efficient and more effective weapon than a full auto. Full autos are just more fun to the guys who really like guns. Semi-autos with high capacity magazines and full autos are a distinction without a difference, if you are talking about limiting access to high magazine capacity people killing weapons. (You can convert an AR 15 to full auto relatively easily. Lots of the owners of AR 15′s know how to do this. It probably isn’t worth the trouble or the potential legal liability for most.) Neither of these is really suitable to hunting, even though in a effort to justify ownership of them fellows will talk about hunting with the AR 15 and its compadres. You can come up with other pretend uses for handguns and AR-15s (the civilian version of the M-16 – although the Air Force’s APs – now SPs used to be armed with AR-15s), but their primary pupose is to kill people. That is what they were designed to do. AR 15s were not manufactured or designed for sports hunting or sport shooting. (Although some people do that with them.) It isn’t a really significant justification for their existence. Most owners have them not from any necessity or for any real sporting purpose, but from either a simple desire to own one of those nasty looking guns or some paranoid/survivalist/gangster purpose. We could do away with all civilian access to these types of weapons and what? You could still hunt, you could still sport shoot, and you could still protect yourself and your home with the thousands of other firearms made for those purposes. Maybe it would cut down on the death toll. I would hope so. It might take one of the apparent weapons of choice for mass murderers off the market. If one were to follow the logic of the NRA in the matter of guns, that gun control laws don’t prevent gun crimes so we shouldn’t have any gun control laws, then we should just repeal all laws. Clearly the laws against murder don’t prevent all murders. Maybe we should try some rational thought in this area.

It was the ACLU that created a lot of this. They get involved in every aspect of someone’s life – and especially preventing the parenting and control of kids who act like thugs. Let’s go back to a time when parents could punish their kids for doing wrong – can you even remember that far back?? It was the ACLU that created the mess that now prevents this punishment. When the state of Indiana created a statewide curfew for all teens – it was the ACLU that jumped all over it and put a stop to it. They tried it in Ohio as well, and it failed because there ever locality had their own curfew laws and it was way to costly for the ACLU to fight that many cases. But, yes, they tried to. The ACLU has prevented parents from doing a little discipline when their kids act out. But, today, everyone wants to blame “liberal parenting” on everything. There is no such thing – it’s the law now that parents have totally lost their ability to raise decent children. We didn’t have this nonsense when I was growing up – I got my butt beat a few times in my life – but I watched violent movies – I played with toy guns – in fact, many of my guns actually had an explosive in it to make it more lifelike than those today – I had cap-guns (anyone remember those?)! There are some differences in other areas of life as well. There were not nearly the number of guns available and most of those which were – were reserved for hunting. Dads didn’t have to keep the hunting rifle under lock and key in those days. I knew better than to get near them and really didn’t want to. We protected our home and family with whatever we happened to have. I can assure you that if someone broke into our house they were getting it with a 22 rifle that my dad used for hunting. And I’m not sure why, but even without large caliber ammo and high-speed reloading – I’m absolutely positive that the result would have been a dead burglar regardless. One last thing – I going to go out on a limb here, but how much meat would be left on a rabbit or even a small deer, after you killed it with an assault rifle and emptying a clip into it? I’d rather use the older smaller type weapons we used when I was a small boy. And because we didn’t need those military weapons in the days of my youth, I am happy to say that I actually made it to an adult. Now I’m scared I may not make it to a senior because I must walk down the street to work in the open space of the public. As a country, we should all be ashamed of ourselves that we allowed this to get to the point is has.

According to the survivor who decided hiding in first her office and then her supply closest was the best way to protect her person, they knew he was armed when they headed out to stop him. They also knew that they were going to die in the attempt. I support responsible gun ownership and am willing to have reasonable restrictions on ownership but you need to look at it rationally and not emotionally. Ct has some of the most restrictive gun laws in the entire country. These guns had belonged to his mother for years and been used in sport and target shooting. What restriction would you put on guns to have stopped this? The things you mention aren’t relevant in this case. The rifle didn’t have a clip carrying 110 rounds or a drum. The clip showed does carry 10 rounds. As my son points out he can change clips of 10 as fast as someone with 100 rounds can shoot. He did not use armor piercing rounds.

Again I say your solutions are irrelevant to this case. That is what I’m objecting too. We should not allow ourselves to get side tracked with what has no relevance to this case. To me the more important issue is where was the help needed to deal with this then boy when he was taken out of school and homeschooled because he apparently couldn’t deal with the society within the school. His mom was having more trouble dealing with him in recent weeks according to her friends. Where was the help for that. Why could he break the school windows to enter the building when there is safety glass available. If you don’t want the teacher to have a gun, how about a taser gun or an air gun carrying sedation darts. How about armed guards.

It wasn’t where the help was for the mother down here who called and reported that her son appeared to be planning something. They stopped it before he could complete his plans to attack a movie theater. This occurred about a week before the school attack up there. I repeat that these things don’t occur in a void and we need to look for a way to really stop them; not panic and start throwing out the baby with the bath water. BTW: Have you looked at how many violent incidents happened while the last Assault weapon ban was the law. When you pass those laws you want then only the criminals will have weapons and they will be able to carry out their violence with impunity.

When Huckabee talks about prayer in school he means Christian prayer. Would he allow Jewish prayer, Muslim prayer, Hindu prayer or an Atheist equivalent? I don’t think so