TCTI: Too Crazy Too Ignore
 Dave Ross
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Rain drops gather on a rose near a teddy bear on a makeshift memorial in the Sandy Hook village of Newtown, Conn., Monday, Dec. 17, 2012, as the town mourns victims killed in Friday's school shooting. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)

Are we fed up yet?

BY Dave Ross  on December 17, 2012 @ 8:28 am (Updated: 10:46 am - 12/17/12 )

Is the massacre in Connecticut going to be the watershed that breaks the deadlock on gun control?

A new Huffington Post poll found 50 percent of Americans say they want stricter gun laws now.

But the same problem is still there: What new law would have prevented Adam Lanza from shooting up that school?

Maybe a law that would have required his mother to lock up her guns? With regular inspections? Or a strict ban on military-style weapons with high capacity magazines? Then his mother could never have bought that AR-15. And he might have been forced to stop and reload, which might have given those teachers a chance to tackle him.

But that's still no guarantee, because this shooter was single-minded, secretive, and suicidal.

Then there's the other reality: that there are members of Congress who still believe that Americans must always have access to the kind of weapons that would enable them to fend off government tyranny, and the Connecticut massacre changes nothing for them.

Rep Louie Gohmert of Texas on Fox News Sunday said if anything, you give the teacher an assault weapon to fight back. You don't take assault weapons away from the American people.

"A free people should be an armed people. It insures against the tyranny of the government. If they know the biggest army is the American people then you don't have the tyranny that came from King George," Gohmert said.

Well, the British seem to have no interest in taking us back. So I guess it's working.

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  • Keitho wrote...
    Utopia at last
    December 17, 2012 8:41 pm
    And wouldnt it be great if gum drops rained down from the skies? Gun control would be a great idea if there were currently no guns. As it is, guns are everywhere and they will always be available to criminals no matter what you do. Gun free zones and gun laws in general are stupid. What person, criminal or crazy is going to care about a gun free zone or that they are illegally possessing a firearm? You're going down for murder already, whats a gun charge tacked on to the sentance going to do?
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  • It's me! Ha ha! wrote...
    Sports
    December 18, 2012 7:55 am
    This is why I communicate with Left wingers the manner that I do. You think that I am irrational? Welcome to my world of dealing with most Obama supporters. Wildly insane. Irrational over the idea of four more years of this. Everything is PERFECT if it were not for Conservatives and Obama can do no wrong.

    As for the Dear Leader? Well calling President Bush SHRUB. Calling for his death? All the hatred of Bush and Conservatives even to this day! (Not you personally as far as I know) but any more disrespectfully?

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  • Seattle is a cesspool wrote...
    Less we forget.
    December 18, 2012 2:19 pm
    Civilian ownership of assault rifles or any other full-automatic firearm is tightly regulated by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives under the National Firearms Act of 1934 as amended by Title II of the Gun Control Act of 1968. In addition, the Firearms Owners' Protection Act of 1986 halted the manufacture of assault rifles for the civilian market and currently limits legal civilian ownership to units produced and properly registered with the BATFE before May 1986. Some states have enacted laws against civilian possession of automatic weapons that override NFA clearance; Kansas, on the other hand, repealed its own state law against civilian ownership of assault rifles in July 2008.[24] Civilians may purchase semi-automatic versions of such firearms without requiring NFA clearance, although some states (including California and New Jersey) enforce their own restrictions and/or prohibitions on such weapons.
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  • pete1891 wrote...
    Hows prohibition working for you so far?
    December 19, 2012 11:16 am
    Oh right, its not. surley it will with guns though.
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