The massacres at Virginia Tech, Newtown, Columbine, Tucson the Sikh Temple and so many others did not happen because persons had the ability to slaughter dozens of people, they happened because they had access to semi-automatic weapons and high capacity magazines that allowed them to carry out their crimes expeditiously, without their presumptive victims having a chance to escape.

Our current laws must be changed. What is happening in the streets of America, which is not limited to massacres and also include daily shootings in every city and town in our country, should be unacceptable to every person capable of thinking logically. We are turning our country into a sequel to Gunfight at the OK Corral, and many seem to be encouraging it.

How do you explain the fact that cities with the toughest gun control laws are also among the cities with the highest murder rates?

We need to make the accessibility of fire arms harder then it is now. I don’t mean hunting rifles, I mean anything more then 5 round clips, what hunter needs mor the 5 shots, and assault rifles or converter kets and hand guns. I haven’t hunted in a good many years, but when I did I didn’t find a neecd for any of these weapons. Maybe get rid of some of the violence in games an movies. You know Frank Capra directed some great movies (though they are in black and white.) as I am constantly being reminded of, by my grandchildren.

EJ Dionne, useful idiot du jour yet again, takes advantage of a tragedy to shove his leftist freak agenda down our throats. Hey EJ…. you ever heard of this thing called the Second Amendment? Yeah, the one right after the very Amendment that allows you to spew this hyperbole crap you’ve posted herein. You say that other countries don’t have this stuff happen, and you know you are lying through your keyboard. What about that nutjob that killed all those kids at camp in Finland? What about the nutjobs in Chechnya that took over that school a few years back? What about the nutjob in China last Friday that went in to a school stabbing children? What about all those crazy jackwagons that attempt this type of masacre with whatever weapons they can get their hands on? By the same token, what about ALL of the times where an armed citizen has prevented harm by some nutjob intent on killing others? You leftist freaks NEVER talk about that, do you? Of course not, because it does not fit your agenda to disarm Americans. The world will never be free of crazy people, no matter how many laws you pass.

One other comment on your drivel, EJ…. when you blame the so-called “gun lobby” for Congress not enacting gun control laws, you fail to mention that the “gun lobby” is the vast majority of Americans who believe in our God-given rights to keep and bear arms as codified in our Second Amendment. I know you leftist freaks hate the Second Amendment, but too friggin bad. If you want it changed, go through the Constitutionally prescribed method for changing it. Until then, STFU!!!!!!

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“I’ll be happy to give up my gun rights when you can prove to me that the criminals will also obey the law and give up theirs. Good luck with that.” — ObozoMustGo

People kill, not guns. No more cars, no more killed? Eliminate water and no one drowns?

My mental institution is having a bus trip to the local gun show! Sign up now!

Yeah because criminals abide by “bans,” don’t they? He didn’t even use the “assault rifle” it was found in his car. Jeezus, talk about agenda driven arguments.

a suggestion: send the horrific pictures of slaughtered children that may exist–and from which the public is rightfully shielded–to the homes of NRA executives where members of the households will open them rather than office secretaries who will throw them away before the execs can see them. It probably will not undercut their rationalizations–MORE guns, not a ban on assault weapons–but it is worth having them face reality.

I wrote in an earlier comment about revamping some of the laws on wepons control. It’s amazing how much disinformation there is out there. I will reiterate, the Second Admendment may have been written in a time of muzzle loaders but these were state of the art weapons in their day. It was written to make sure that the people were armed to defend against a government that no longer obayed the peoples wishs. You could not defend against a modern government with antique firearms. Take a look at most dictators including Hitler. They disarmed the populace first thing and remember Hitler was elected by the people.

We have amended the constitution before when times changed. Women and Afro Americans couldn’t vote, so we changed that. We in fact amended the constitution more than 14 times, and there were no lightning bolts from God. The 2nd Amendment was written at a time when we were a very young country, with limited government protection, and no large standing army. We relied on state militias to be called up during a war like in 1812, so we wanted citizens to be armed. We replaced that militia with the national guard made up of Pt time citizen soldiers. We left the gun owning provision in because most of the country was unsettled and hunting was how people got food, and was a popular sport. The founders never envisioned that the 2nd amendment would be used to protect military assualt weapons in the hands of the citizens. Up until the 1980s most people had shotguns for hunting and rifles for target. Then people out west and groups like the free masons decided that the government was out to get them, so they began getting military surplus weapons.These and other extremest groups began to get their hands on these weapons. The NRA which started as an outgrowth of hunting associations now began to get these other groups as members and started to lobby republicans, and some democrats to allow these weapons to stay legal. Government mistakes in the 1990s like Waco, and Ruby Ridge, fueled the fear that these groups had for the government and then the arms race accelerated. It didn’t matter now to the NRA which groups it was protecting. So when a Neo Nazi armed with an assualt rifle walked into a Jewish day care and killed 14 children and 1 postman, the NRA still defended the ownership of these weapons. It didn’t canel their national convention in Denver just after the Columbine massacre, where Charlton Heston said you would have to take his gun out of his cold dead hand(meaning the goverenment of course)
So this is the fight, between the city people and country ones. The city people see the police as protectors and the country ones as potential ememies. The city people want the assualt guns out of there and the country people are stockpiling. This is why there won’t be any real gun control, just some minor regulations around the edges. As long as the tea party preaches it’s anti government rhetoric it will increase the need for their followers to arm up, and they won’t give an inch.

Apparently after the tragedy at Sandy Hook Elementary where 26 innocent children and teachers were slaughtered, the paranoid, government conspiracy theorists and belief that NATO black helicopters will be flying over their houses to take away their guns and freedoms are stockpiling as many AR-15′s, and other automatic weapons and ammunition as they can. The idea of these types of people such as Ted Nugent having access to these type of weapons should concern all sane people no matter how you feel about gun control.

I think every liberal should be mandated to put a gun free zone in their front yard.I bet you not one of these hippicrites would do it.

James, what’s the annual murder rate in Cuba?

Richard Stewart is another we should watch for our next national news story.

No question that actions have to be taken to curb gun violence.
1st any one who is being treated or who has ever been treated for a mental problem should ever be allowed to own or purchase a weapon. Doctors and psychologists or the ministers would be required to enter the individuals name in the federal data base so they would automatically pop up if they tried to purchase. Only a complete battery of tests wold be required before removal. I’m sure we will hear from the liberal left that this will stigmatize mental illness and our response should be Soooo??
2nd only US citizens should be allowed to purchase weapons
3rd no mooslim should be allowed to buy a weapon

America preaches to the rest of the world about all sorts of things including the safety and security of citizens and all manner of things. But when it comes to doing the right things for the American people, the American congress and the senate are impotent. The second amendment of the constitution was passed in 1700 hundred. By then white Americans especially in the deep south owned Africans as slaves whom they mistreated intensely. This was among other things the main reason as to why the white Americans needed to bear and to own guns to protect themselves from enslaved Africans who were attempting to rebel against white subjugation and oppression. Those years have gone by and things have changed greatly since then. The world does not stand still, the man who was president when the second amendment was legislated and passed into law is not the president today. There have been many presidents who have come and gone. Why should a law that was passed two hundred years ago be applicable in the twenty first century? Two hundred years ago there were no telephones as we know them today, there were no mobile phones, the emergency response to any emergencies was none existent, the road network was not well developed as today, there was no organised police force as we know it today, the armed forces were not as organised as today. All these services are available now and readily accessible. Why should individual citizens bear and own guns to protect themselves, when the police can be so easily reached? These guns are causing so much havoc, they kill even the very same people who own and keep them as in the Lanza case in Newtown. There should be serious rethink about gun ownership and all the nonsense that is used to justify this barbaric practice. People should stay back from pointing fingers to President obama for not doing anything about gun ownership. Why should President Obama be expected to solve a problem that has been in society for the last two hundred years? Every leader, citizen and all law abiding nationals of America must speak to the NRA with one voice. Enough is enough! The gun manufacturers and dealers may be looking at guns as their business and profits and what have you, but they also need to consider the lose of lives their merchandice is causing. The NRA members should be very ashamed of themselves and their warped up arguments to justify this kind of evil in society. If individual citizens can try to justify gun ownership by invoking self defence as a reason; we need to ask ourselves what is the work of the Police? Self defence should not be used as reason enough to justify gun ownership at all. It has been shown that guns can be used to maim and to kill the very same people who own them as it happened in this tragic incidence of the Lanza mother and son. The Federal government should ask all those who own and keep high calibre assault weapons to surrender them to the police, they should be given amnesty to surrender their assenals once and for good so that this sad chapter in America can be closed once and for good. There are these despicable people such as John McCain, John Boehner, Kelly Ayotte, Graham Lindsey who find pleasure in making harrassing the President in all sorts of things, and in all sorts of ways on issues that do not matter to the country that much. Where are these morons at a time like now? Why haven’t they opened their foul mouths to condemn or castigate this tragedy in the same manner they go a round swearing on the President’s intended appointments of his staff? What is more important to these imbeciles, Susan Rice’s appointment as SoS or the slaughter of innocent babies? How sad that America has people such as John McCain and co as leaders in the senate of the greatest country in the world today!

obooboy should keep his lying mouth shut. Everyone is tired of listening to him talk about himself. he is so arrogant and self centered that when he looks in the mirror he thinks he looks better than the guy looking back at him.