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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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seanomelb | Dec 15, 2012, 10:56 PM EST

You're sick in the mind Phaenius. The first world have gun control and less violence, open that pea brain of yours child killer.One day the U.S may become a first world country

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pilib04 | Dec 15, 2012, 10:24 PM EST

Patrick, it is the gun manufacturers who must be shut down. There are already 300 million privately owned guns in America. The greatest growth of gun distribution has taken place in the last four years. Unfortunately no politician has the stomach to take on the NRA.

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pilib04 | Dec 15, 2012, 10:21 PM EST

Finally after all this time I can agree with something that Patrick Roberts writes.In particular, the National Rifle Association controls the gun debate within both major political parties in America.

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Phaenius | Dec 15, 2012, 07:44 PM EST

seanomelb - what bravery? I see foolishness for using our teachers as cannon fodder, sending them to the front in this violent world where God is forbidden to be taught in school without a means to prevent not only their own deaths but that of their charge. Whoever was "brave" is dead and we have the seanomelbs of the world to blame for their true foolishness of forbidding anyone the right to protect themselves and those weak beneath them.

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Josie | Dec 15, 2012, 07:21 PM EST

The killer broke 47 laws.. you think he would have obeyed the 48th? Arm the teachers and mind your own business, Ireland.

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Phaenius | Dec 15, 2012, 07:01 PM EST

How about putting those folk to death who murder our children? How about too many restrictions by fools forbidding teachers and adults from defending against a gun wielder by having guns of their own? This is how we do it in the Federal government. But government is the tool of the people, a gun, to backup the citizen against a perp. This is a Biblical tenet that our founders recognized when they accepted Locke's Second Treatise of Government concept of government. The preacher in the Bible states that two are better than one against a perp and a threefold cord is not easily broken. Government is that backup coming in the nick of time when the citizen attempts to hold the perp at bay for those few minutes it takes for government to come in like a knight in shining armor. In New York, if the cops are not shooting people (and many are necessary), they send only forensic teams to clean up after a perp massacre against their unarmed victims.

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seanomelb | Dec 15, 2012, 06:44 PM EST

We get fools you put child murder a poor second to gun laws. You still live in a Hollywood version of the wild west.You haven't reached the twentieth century yet.maybe you'll reach it after another school masscre,which you aid and abett by your God/Gun culture.

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seanomelb | Dec 15, 2012, 06:05 PM EST

"They really outdid themselves.In Wisconsin and across the nation,public school employee unions spared no kiddie shields in their battle against Gov.Scott Walker's budget and pension reforms. Students were the first and last causalties. To kick off the yearlong protest,the Wisconsin education association council led a massive "sickout" of educators.Teachers were using other peoples children as pawns and junior lobbyists" So said Michelle Malkin on Fox and the usual suspect Hannity agreed with her.Well F###y### michelle. What do you think of public educators today Malkin after their bravery at Newtown.

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PiperMac52 | Dec 15, 2012, 06:01 PM EST

When will you lefties get it? We have enough gun laws on the books to address every issue involving their use, ownership, registration, qualifications...they will not address the real problem her. The debasement of the culture and eschewing the Judeo-Christian values that this nation was founded on. I am old enough to remember when the gun laws were much more lenient pre the 68' gun control act and guess what, when I was growing up we didn't have these mass shooting. Evil reigns and these heinous acts are a direct result of two or three generations having become desensitized to violence, , drug abuse etc. as they are inundated daily via video games, movies, music and a secular agenda where God no longer exists and we are mere animals no different than those in the jungle. The results are now self evident for anyone who really wishes to see.

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Gaelicpiper | Dec 15, 2012, 06:01 PM EST

Well, another left wing article by the Irish Central wordsmith. That guy has an agenda- every time some event, such as this, happens- the site acts like Rom (Dead Fish), the current mayor of Chicago, "No Tradedy should go to waste. Why is it that these events always happen in Red States? Could it be the liberal mind set that creats the environment and allows these things to happen? Blue States- populated by useful fools that put us all at risk.?

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seanomelb | Dec 15, 2012, 05:31 PM EST

The NRA and the mindless gun lovers below are culpable in the deaths of all school massacres. No first world country has the statistics re gun related deaths,maybe that's because the U.S. may not be a first world country.All of western Europe,Canada.Australia and N.Z. combined have about 1% of the American deaths by gunshots on an annual basis and they have gun control.A change of priorites is neeeded. The God,Gun and country mantra must be changed.PUT YOUR CHILDREN FIRST.

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Blackduck | Dec 15, 2012, 03:57 PM EST

How come New York; Washington DC, and Chicago, who have the strictest gun laws in America, have the biggest crime rate in the USA? Australia's crime rate involving fire arms sky rocketed when Australia banned guns. Also states like Oklahoma; and Texas crime rates dropped when the concealed gun laws were put into place. By banning guns; only the criminals will have guns. Allowing the common man to have guns is what keeps Americans free.

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BippyBellito | Dec 15, 2012, 03:20 PM EST

This is Pub Logic usually prevalent after closing. There are several millions of law abding gun holders in the U.S. Connecticut is one of those states that discourage gun ownership, as is New York. What states have the biggest crime? Duh, New York is the "Star". If one teacher had a weapon we would be reading a different story today.

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Nicomax | Dec 15, 2012, 03:09 PM EST

What with the term "well-regulated" do we not understand? Over 300 million guns in the US, but only 45% of US households have them- what are they doing with all of these weapons? Very few gun deaths are the result of protecting yourself from criminals- most gun deaths end up in killing friends, families, neighbors, just like Newtown. Is it the fear of the black man who is still angry with us for enslaving their ancestors? -not to worry, blacks usually just kill other blacks. Why no background checks and waiting period at gun shows? Why do you need huge bullet clips?- tax the bullets at a very high rate. Why not restore the Assault Weapons Ban that Bush let expire at the end of his woeful term in office? Lots of 'whys', all with one answer- a lack of political courage.

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Nicomax | Dec 15, 2012, 03:05 PM EST

"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." holligan6a is right. Every home in Switzerland has a rifle and ammo to go with it and probably knives as well. They are trained to use them, to defend themselves against any foreign invasion. THIS is what the 2nd amendment authors had in mind. Yet there are so few violent crimes, they don't even bother keeping statistics.

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