"He is coming after your guns. This is it that will get him cover."

"It's folks like him who are responsible for many of these mass shootings..."

"The left will find a way to make political hay off this murder"

"Alternative title; 0bama Demagogues Gun Control With the Blood of Children"

 ""0bama Demagogues Gun Control With the Blood of Children"
That's old news. Obama should have been impeached long ago for intentionally creating gun violence against innocent children in order to advance what he's about to advance in the weeks ahead. Elections have consequences. "

"I have no reason not to believe this pResident was not somehow directly or indirectly behind the mass murders that occurred today or all the others that have happened under his pResidency."

"Here's a novel idea. ALL teachers and school staff are required to take a firearms safety and proficiency course taught by law enforcement. Then they are issued a standard pistol and ammo or they can get their own side arm and approved ammo. Now ever six months all teachers and staff are required to go to the range for proficiency training. Here's the good part, all teachers and stall are required to OPEN carry while in a paid status at the school."

"I have told my wife that since the left has thrown God out of the public arena (USA has turned its back on God), and killed the God-given institution of Marriage between a man and a woman, the country has gone to hell ever since."

"You're absolutely right. Muslims set up their bases right in the schools."

"Prayers for the families of those lost, but liberalism and gun control have to take some responsibility for making these kids and their teachers totally helpless along with the savage murderer. "

"Obama has the massacre he's been waiting for."

  That so many of the dscussions follow in the immediate aftermath of a mass killing though can distort perspective and lead to the rather inane retort that guns are not necessary to kill, which is true but rather beside the point.

  The point is that easy access to guns does mean more people die-- and not just more people at one time in incidents such as this. When an angry husband lashes out as his  wife or a couple of drunks get in a fight someone is FAR more likely to die if a gun is present. The disingenous nonsense about well bombs can kill too doesn't come into play in these and all the more common gun killing scenarios. People die because someone has a highly effective and efficient killing machine that takes no forethought to use. Less people would die if these violent incidents involved no weapons or weapons less deadly than a gun. that is inarguable fact.

  Positing that a  person could assemble the materials to build a bomb and take the bomb somewhere where many people are present and detonate it in no way whatsoever supports the proposition that just as many people would die even  if there were fewer guns in fewer hands.

  I have said I do believ Heller was correctly decided and that the 2nd Amendment does confer an individual right to bear arms. That's because I'm a lawyer with a history degree who tries as best I can not to let my personal biases infect my analysis. It's not because I think it is good policy to make it so easy to obatain and keep firearms in our present day society. I don't favor banning private gun ownership because I don't think it is either  justified or practically possible. I do firmly believe we need to take strong steps to restrict certain types of firearms and to increase the numbers of people who are not allowed to possess firearms, and we need to enforce such laws vigilantly.

  Obviously, that will not stop all gun killings let alone all killings. It should not bear repeating but sometimes it it seems necessary to remind that less of a bad thing is better than more of a bad thing. That an  action will only reduce not eliminate a bad thing is only a good argument against taking the action when the negative consequences of the action outweigh the reduction of bad.

And you know what? If they really believe their insane rationale, how come you're not allowed to carry a gun in Michigan's state capitol, or when you visit a legislator's office? Maybe some brave reporter (yeah, right) should ask them: link

A teacher's son clad in black and carrying two guns rampaged through a Connecticut elementary school Friday, killing 18 small children and seven adults, including his mother, in the nation's second-worst school shooting, law enforcement officials said.

The gunman, identified as Ryan Lanza, 24, of Hoboken, N.J., was also found dead at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, a federal law enforcement official said.

Lanza's mother is a kindergarten teacher at the hilltop school, and it's inside her classroom where most of the casualties were found, according to NBCNewYork.com.

With that label affixed, the whole apparatus of our security state - mass wiretapping, computer surveillance - might be directed towards the apprehension of individuals suspected as would-be shooters.

Ryan Lanza has told authorities that his younger brother is autistic, or has Asperger syndrome and a "personality disorder." Neighbors described the younger man to ABC as "odd" and displaying characteristics associated with obsessive-compulsive disorder.