I don't understand why anti-gunners are clamoring for additional gun laws. The shooters in Columbine, Virginia Tech, Aurora and Sandy Hook all were mentally deranged individuals. They didn't give a damn about gun laws we now have. Do anti-gunners really believe more laws are going to change a psychopaths intent? If we have 10,000 gun laws some of them WILL still inflict their heinous crime on others. A simple fact is gun laws will not stop this individual. All additional gun laws will do is restrict even more the law abiding citizen from protecting their family, themselves and their property. What is needed is a system to identify and get mental help for these individuals before they go off the deep end.

Also, I believe the media is partly to blame. They keep going over and over and over the same stories which may help fuel the fire in some sick individuals into thinking I can do that and I'll get my moment of fame. The media is sensationalizing violence: stop!

I don't understand why anti-gunners are clamoring for additional gun laws. The shooters in Columbine, Virginia Tech, Aurora and Sandy Hook all were mentally deranged individuals. They didn't give a damn about gun laws we now have. Do anti-gunners really believe more laws are going to change a psychopaths intent? If we have 10,000 gun laws some of them WILL still inflict their heinous crime on others. A simple fact is gun laws will not stop this individual. All additional gun laws will do is restrict even more the law abiding citizen from protecting their family, themselves and their property. What is needed is a system to identify and get mental help for these individuals before they go off the deep end.

Also, I believe the media is partly to blame. They keep going over and over and over the same stories which may help fuel the fire in some sick individuals into thinking I can do that and I'll get my moment of fame. The media is sensationalizing violence: stop!

Huey Driver in our society today it is almost impossible to get along without an automobile unless you live where other means of transport are available, i.e. subways, a bus system, or inner city rail. While not acceptable the death rate from auto accidents has been somewhat alleviated by laws mandating seat belt use, air bags and other types of safety devices. When those laws were enacted did you fight vociferously against them? You need a license to prove you are proficient enough to drive a car. In most places in the U.S. anyone can buy a gun legally if he can fill out the forms, has no criminal record and can come up with the cash. We have restrictions in place on the use of autos and yet even the mildest of restrictions on gun ownership raise the hackles of some folks beyond belief. I will admit guns were necessary when our forefathers were living in an unsettled wilderness. I agree the guy that wants to hunt or target shoot should be allowed his sport, but you don't need weapons with high capacity magazines to do either. As for protection a gun isn't much good if you can't get at it, but if you can get at it so can others. If you owned a weapon that was used in a mass killing because it was stolen from you because you left it where you could get at it quickly how would you feel? I would imagine quite sick as most of us would.

Something else that boggles my mind. Considering the news media and the anti-gun folks continued attack on assault rifles shows they don't know much about guns. They perceive this weapon to be the ultimate killing machine and should be banned. A Glock pistol (other pistols and guns as well) with high capacity clips and in close proximity to your target like the kids at Newtown were are just as deadly as any assault rifle. Actually it probably can be re-clipped with more ammunition faster than an AK or AR. When is the last time you heard the news media write or say, "Hey, we need to ban Glocks"?




Sorry to say Huey, with no disrespect, you have forgotten history. Back when Glock's first came out anti-gunners had a big campaign and pushed for them to be banned. After all they could easily gotten be through metal detectors being made of plastic instead of metal. Which has been totally proved wrong. Their world didn't come to an end with them in circulation as they stated it would.

Another point to be made is that guns have been totally banned off airplanes. How safe is it on an airplane ride today because of the total ban. I feel so safe after the intrusive search, to find and eliminate any gun on a plane, just to get on a plane as it flies through the air at 550 mph heading straight for a tall building because of razor blades.

Today we have undercover armed (guns) guards on some of the planes as well as some of the pilots are armed because the total ban has been proven a dismal failure. The loonies have found ways around the security of a lack of guns.

A good anology of anti-gunners is a bull fight. There in the middle of the ring is a man with a red cape and a sword, these anti-gunners are the bull. Even though the man is controling the cape (the criminal), the bull totally ignores the root cause of the cape moving, chases the thing he is having waving in front of its eyes, and completely unaware of the sword. The bull thinks he is totally right, totally dedicated and is totally content to chase the effect and not the cause. Once the matador tires of the game, he drops the cape and it's time to plunge the sword into the heart of the bull. Poor bull didn't know the rules of the game of survival. For him it was a just a feel good game, which according to his convictions was the right thing to do in the ring becasue that was what he was bread to do.

Anti-gunners want to be in the ring of life without weapons, and chase the empty cape and believe that others should be like them. They only find out when the cape is dropped, that having only police, and military having weapons winds up not being a good choice for survival. But the situation is not totally what it looks like, for not only will the police and military have weapons but others like dignitaries, celeberties, the rich and famous, those living in gated communities will all be protedted by guns. Its only the general populous that will be unarmed and left for the sword of the matador.