I like your quote about the musket being an assault rifle.  The 2nd amendment during it's time of origination allowed for the american people to be able to have the same weapons as the military did to form the militias and be used for hunting/protection.  I'm not saying I should have access to an A-1 Abrams tank or anything, but tweaking our constitutional rights just doesn't sit well in my outlook on this once great countries future.  I mean we can't even say god or Merry Christmas in schools anymore.  What's this country coming to?

"gun control"/gun bans/dis-arming "haha really"     All will result in one thing, gun trafficking becomes really lucrative in this country like it is in other parts of the world.  Then we can become the biggest importer of cocaine and other drugs as well as compete for the largest importer of weapons illegal or not.  Like Cactus said, they have done a great job outlawing the drugs and stopping it right?  The Secret Service themselves stated: We can prevent almost anything but there is little we can do about crazy.

How many soldiers come home and have trouble finding decent work?  A few guys in uniform with their sidearm at a school or any where else is a great deterrent.  Not a guarantee nothing will happen BUT it assures it will not get very far.  They have police on duty at my kids school but he has way too much to cover, they need at least one guy at every major building to really have a bit of security in my book.  Would all that cost a good chunk of money? Sure it would when you think nationwide, what are the people and kids in those buildings worth??  WHats the dollar value on each one?

I apologize for the following paragraph because it is inflammatory at best.  I am sure some of those parents in Connecticut either now or in the future will believe firmly in gun control issues

The type of people that are promoting this dis-arming of the public.  Have never had a gun in their face, been robbed or likely have had family killed by violence..a generalization I admit.  Here is another; They also believe that no military action is ever necessary, we can talk our way through any problem even while being attacked or shot at.  Course that is just because they are watching/hearing/talking about it not actually in it.  I wonder how they would be thinking when a guy has a knife or gun on one of thier kids or loved ones....."boy if we had just worked a little harder on that mental illness program, gun control law...maybe a little more funding would fix this, I wonder if this fellow grew up in a bad home or did not have the financial opportunities he should have."   Yea I am sure that is all they would be worried about.

Obama really impressed me with his statements.  "We are going to need to work on making access to mental health care at least as easy as access to getting a gun," said President Barack Obama.  REALLY? What a political BS statement.  Even in the most rural area in this country if someone WANTS/needs mental help they can get it.  You cannot help anyone with mental issues that does not want or think they need help. 

It is just a fact:  If somebody goes off the deep end, with or without a gun if they want to kill people they are probably going to get away with it until somebody steps up and stops them.  My uncle was murdered with a freaking heavy bookend off a shelf in his house for gosh sakes.  How many joe average in the mall do you think could wrestle a butcher knife away from a reasonably strong fella hell bent on using it??  Exactly; Somebody will be hurt, some likely fatally.  I guess we need a nation wide ban on cutlery too!

Personally I would rather be in the mall with some other law abiding citizen who was packing and well practiced in the use of their weapon...they have at least the chance of stopping something without putting themselves or others in harms way.

I see my fellow ar**ehole of a country man, Mr Piers Morgan is stirring up the rhetoric on your TV channels! Why do you give him a job? we have more or less banned him in the UK!