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While I live in a very "liberal" state (Washington) there are a huge number of residents on both sides of the isle that are pro gun. We have a very reasonable right to carry law and have just recently gotten Olympia to permit the ownership and use of sound suppressors. Before you could own a suppressor and even mount it on your weapon, you just couldn't shoot with it... go figure the logic of that law.
Gun ownership of all types of firearms is popular here. While they may press for draconian laws in DC they might find weak support from the very states that helped keep the current administration in office. The tragic events in Connecticut are enough to make one understand people's need to take some sort of action. The action needed is just the opposite of what the average non gun owner might consider necessary.
All schools should be closed campuses once school starts until it ends. There are a ton of retired police officers and military that I'm certain they could find individuals willing to train and provide armed security on school campuses.
Information should be free flowing between medical facilities and the folks doing background checks. If a mental institution knows that Joe Blow was diagnosed certifiably whacko they should share that information. Then even if he lies on the forms when attempting to purchase a firearm he would be turned down.
The multitude of laws currently in place are more than adequate if properly enforced and even then murders will occur.
The shooter was evil folks, mentally ill and evil. There will always be evil people on this old earth. Ball bats, knives, explosives and such, if someone wants to harm others bad enough it doesn't take a gun. In fact a gun in the right hands might have put an end to the miserable punk that murdered so many children. At the very least an armed staff member might have bought time enough for the police to respond and put an end to it all.
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