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People and Politics by Patrick Roberts

Tougher gun laws must come after Newton murders of innocent children

Posted on Friday, December 14, 2012 at 09:34 PM

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Utter heartbreak and horror felt in Newtown - before more innocent
chidlrern are murdered gun laws in the US must be addressed

Lunatics with guns have gone berserk in America and must be stopped.

How many deaths does it take to ignore that too many people have died?

Another day, another maniac running loose this time shooting innocent children at the very dawn of their lives in Newtown Connecticut.

Yet there are those who will defend ownership of the weapons including a high powered rifle by this crazy loon.

It can not be defended nor should it be. The framers of the constitution made a horrible mistake when they wrote the Second Amendment leaving it open to the interpretation that every lunatic alive in America has the right to a gun.

It is ridiculously easy for mentally disturbed maniacs to purchase guns in this country and it is time it stopped.

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It is time that President Obama stepped up the plate, whatever the political consequences, and told the obvious truth.

He like every other major politician has been frozen in the headlights of the National Rifle Association on this issue.

Only a rare politician like Michael Bloomberg, New York Mayor has had the moxie and the money to challenge them.

It is time for Obama and all legislators to face down the gun lobby and bring common sense back to the table.

The bodies of the dead children in Connecticut will haunt them until they do.

There are far too many guns in our society and it is far too easy for lunatics to purchase them.

And no, I don't want to hear the weasel arguments about how if only criminals have guns, crime will skyrocket. What is happening now is mass slaughter of innocents from nursery schools to shopping malls to movie theaters.

The macho posturing of the gun lobby has to stop and a rare concept of decency and reality must creep in.

They cannot keep defending the indefensible just so gun manufacturers can post big profits and keep the rest of the country in a state of permanent fear.

It is past time for action or do we want the blood of more murdered children on our hands?

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maireadinmelb | Dec 19, 2012, 04:17 AM EST

Smyrnian - maybe biggest mass murder of americans I remember a city called Nagasaki adn Hiroshimo!

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seanomelb | Dec 18, 2012, 06:43 PM EST

It may have been the biggest mass murder in American history but not as big as the mass murders committed by the U.S. The carpet bombing of Vietnam,Laos and Cambodia come to mind. Smyrnian I'm insensitive!! Mother trains son to use firearms,son takes mother's firearms and shoots mother and 25 other innocent people and thats a fact not a fairytale. If there were no guns in the house there would be no massacre. you possess a siege mentality as does schlomo as did Lanza's mother..

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Schlomo | Dec 18, 2012, 03:02 PM EST

To all of the politicians and other whining, Liberals calling for gun free zones, let’s make a suggestion. 1) Let's make the White House a gun free zone. That includes the Secret Service. 2) Let's make the Capitol a gun free zone. That includes the Capitol Police. 3) All of you Hollywood nitwits who are calling for the banning of guns, you first. Make your body-guards gun free. It wasn't the guns that were at fault on Friday. It was the mentally ill dude behind them. He should have been in an institution. Blame the ACLU and the progressives liberals for keeping people that should be in homes for the mentally bewildered out of them and on the streets.

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Smyrnian | Dec 18, 2012, 10:12 AM EST

Sean - incorrect, insulting, insensitive and thoughtless statement. On 9-11-01 the biggest mass murder in history occurred. No guns; just box cutters.

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seanomelb | Dec 17, 2012, 06:01 PM EST

Gun owners or their offspring kill children.NO guns no deaths.

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Smyrnian | Dec 17, 2012, 05:45 PM EST

McNamara - you don't know what you are talking about. You cannot buy an assault weapon on the US anywhere. You must mean the media inspired" assault style weapon". Do you even know the definition of an assault rifle? Doubt it...

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peterson | Dec 17, 2012, 05:38 PM EST

The reason that Japan did not invade the USA was that the citizens were well armed !If guns are outlawed, out outlaws will have guns !!

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maryosullivan | Dec 17, 2012, 10:22 AM EST

It isn't just the macho posturing of the gun lobby, it's also the macho posturing of the press, the politicians ,[ remember Palin's reload comment]. etc and most of all , governments with the most lethal weapons can wipe out the "enemy" with the push of a button, what will keep a person who may see others as the enemy from doing the same thing. this is the real trickle down effect

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kelauggie1 | Dec 17, 2012, 09:22 AM EST

Lunatics who want to usurp the power of the US Constitution have gone berserk and must be stopped.

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seanomelb | Dec 16, 2012, 06:18 PM EST

Tbrady guns don't kill people.people with guns kill other people.Armed guards at every school!!So chioldren will go to school with a siege mentality and they will grow up and pass on the siege mentality to their children.When will it ever end. It's a proven fact less guns less deaths.the gun lobby have the blood 20 little soul on their hands. I notice no pro gun politician will appear on TV to defend their position nor do they condemn the deaths. The NRA are notably silent the murdering hypocrites.

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tbradynumber1 | Dec 16, 2012, 06:13 PM EST

Guns will protect our children. And that's going to be the way of it tomorrow (Monday) as there will be an increased police presence at the schools in my area. I suspect most schools across the country will do likewise.

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anglo-norman | Dec 16, 2012, 05:17 PM EST

Seanomelb- Grow up son

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McNamara31 | Dec 16, 2012, 04:46 PM EST

Any lunatic can walk into a "gun show" and purchase an assault weapon....How can that be? One answer alone:the power and influence of the NRA, and all the American politicians who worship at their feet. Look at the devastation on the young woman's face in the picture; her anguish was bought and sold on "K" Street home of the Washington lobbyists. By tomorrow their high paid operatives (Limbaugh, Hannity, Beck) on conservative TV and radio, will re- frame this massacre as a mental health problem and not a gun problem.We have ourselves to blame if we let them get away with is once again.

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tbradynumber1 | Dec 16, 2012, 12:33 PM EST

Towngate: That is a good question. What did she want with those guns. From what I've heard on the news she was living alone and afraid. Didn't say what she was afraid of but she was afraid of someone attacking her obviously.

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