Newtown School Shootings

[Andres]

There are approx 310 million firearms in circulation among civilians in the USA. Good luck registering them. The third-most powerful lobbying group is a 2nd Amendment absolutist which has been hysterically screaming about how Obama will derk er guhns for four years. The courts and public are approx 50% 2A absolutists.

As long as you have such powerful absolutists, backed by such a large part of the population, clinging on to this Amendmenet as if it were some holy rule written in stone by Supreme Beings, you can't have an open debate. And gun legislation is only one aspect.

I would like to see gun ownership about as regulated as motor vehicle operation, but a school full of dead children ain't gonna make it happen.

A teenager can take his/her fathers' car for a ride without the father knowing... Juste like a young lad can take his mothers' guns and shoot her before going on a rampage with her guns...

If your legislation on guns is the main reason for events such like these happening, then only outright banning private gun ownership will help, imo. Even if you add extra regulation, it'll still be too easy for a deranged individual to get his hands on a gun.