Shooting at CT elementary school leaves at least 27 dead, 18 of them children

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Obama's statements on this were very powerful: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=HKL6S3LEw6c#!

It's a good thing this country prioritizes low taxes and the rights of paranoid rednecks over mental healthcare and gun control.

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It seems a lot of you guys think we need more gun control. How exactly will more gun control prevent these kinds of shootings or gun violence in general.

Guns are incredibly deadly weapons. Make it much harder for people to get these incredibly deadly weapons, and fewer people will be slaughtered with them. It's not that complicated.

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The NRA continues to be scum:

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As for gun controls, the scary thing is, background checks and the like, which we need, wouldn't stop crimes like this. These guys aren't hardened criminals. They are sick individuals who are convinced the world is against them and have to get back at it by going on a mass killing before dying.

Sure, but if they went on a mass killing with a knife or something instead of guns designed to quickly kill lots of people, many fewer people would die in these attacks.

Gun control may not keep guns out of the hands of gang members or whatever, but I really do think it would make incidents like this considerably less horrendous, if it didn't prevent them completely.

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Gun control wouldn't have prevented the attack, but if the guy had been using a knife (or even a much less deadly gun) then many fewer children would be dead. Of course five people dying instead of twenty-seven or whatever we're up to is still a tragedy, but at least it's less of one.

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It is somewhat ironic that some folks that staunchly support drug legalization because "people will get drugs anyway and prohibition doesn't work" also believe that prohibition on guns will work well.

I would support drug legalization even if the government was able to magically keep everyone from getting any drugs at all.

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Obviously we just need to apply a 1791 standard to the 2nd amendment. If the weapon existed when the amendment was ratified, you're allowed to own as many of them as you want. If it was only invented after 1791, it's illegal to own one.

Checkmate, strict constructionists.

(Realistically though, a ban on semi-automatics (automatics are already banned I'm pretty sure) and magazines with more than a handful of bullets, seems sensible.)