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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What gun control regulations would you impose if you could?  Explain why you think your proposal would prevent another Newton?[/quote]

I would start first with the assault rifles.  Why does any civilian need an assault rifle?  yes, a handgun can kill kids, too (as it does ever year either by accident or not).  But it doesn't take a genius to realize that a handgun would've done much less damage than an assault rifle.

Secondly, we need to close the loopholes for gun checks.  Why can you buy a gun at a gun show with no background checks?  Buying a gun over the internet should be illegal as well.  Guns should only be sold at government sanctioned stores, like we do with alcohol in DMV area.

Is this going to prevent all school shootings? Probably not, but it will surely make it harder for people to get their hands on it.  And let's be clear, the vast majority (if not all) of the school shootings were committed by boys/men from middle/upper class families, not by gang-bangers/felons.  Yes, felons will get their hands on a gun from the black market and that is a problem, too.  But if stricter gun control can reduce school shootings and save the lives of little children, I think it's worth this.

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Is there evidence to support the suggestion that stricter gun laws lead to less violence?  Doesn't Connecticut have comparatively strict gun laws? I know Chicago does.

It seems to me that our gun laws haven't changed much over the years (if anything they are more strict) but the use of guns by mentally/emotionally unstable people has increased.  Why is that?  To me the common thread is not guns, but mental/emotional instability. One thing I'd propose is that the media should refuse to publish the name of these mass murders.  The need to be relevant/recognized has a strange impact on an unstable mind and it seems that a disturbing number of these high school kids who go on a rampage are all too familiar with the names Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold - to an unstable mind being infamous is just as good as being famous.[/quote]

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