It's not the concealed carry folks who are committing these crimes. If you were in a shopping mall or a school where one of these insane killers appeared, would you rather be hiding under a desk in the corner of a room hoping the maniac doesn't come your way; or would you prefer to have an armed citizen in your company just in case?

How do you disarm a nation like ours? Do you declare a police state and go into everyone’s home, rip the place apart. Do you punish the good citizens; render them defenseless and unable to protect themselves and their families in these situations?

I took a CCW class and got a license five years ago. When the Sheriff issued the permits there were about 50 applicants present. At the end of the meeting the Sheriff said that in this group he was with 50 of the most law abiding and trustworthy citizens he comes into contact with while doing his job. We had all been vetted by the local, state, and federal police agencies.

If you want to control law abiding American citizens who hunt, shoot, and collect firearms…how and to what length would you go to do that? Remember, we are not and never have been Canada or the UK. Also, I’m pretty sure that a large number of conservatives and democrats fall in the gun owner category; well over half the voting population.

I want to be armed if I ever get in a situation where one of these insane killers appears. I don’t want to be hiding under a desk with my cell phone as my only defense.

Yes it does change my mind. I was totally against children being exposed to guns at school. They are so young and impressionable, why introduce them to guns so young? But now? Why do we protect our banks with armed guards and not school children? Why do we protect our courts with armed guards but not our school children? Why can some criminal walk into a school with a gun and shoot people like sitting ducks because the teacher, the law abiding citizen, is a sitting duck. The teacher is not allowed to be armed for protection and our children are sitting ducks

It's not a gun issue. It's an issue of how mental illness is looked at and how it is treated. Facilities should not be closed and funding should not be cut.

I think it's an issue of accessibility. I do not own firearms, choose not to and don't want them in my home; but it's a person's right in the U.S. to choose for him- or herself. But background checks only work so far, especially if the person has not been recorded in the mental health or criminal justice systems. Is there a way to modify weapons or even ammunition to track them remotely or even disable them if the owner doesn't match the user? Will there ever be a system, rather like an electronic car ignition, to do something like that at all? Fanciful, wishful thinking, I know, and far too late for too many victims. One can only hope....

"An armed society is a polite society" Robert A. Heinlein

Try reading this from Harvard University Journal of Law. It proves that more gun ownership leads to less violent confrontational crimes.

http://www.law.harvard.edu/students/orgs/jlpp/Vol30_No2_KatesMauseronline.pdf

Morgan Freeman's brilliant take on what happened yesterday :

It's because of the way the media reports it. Flip on the news and watch how we treat the Batman theater shooter and the Oregon mall shooter like celebrities. Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris are household names, but do you know the name of a single *victim* of Columbine? Disturbed
people who would otherwise just off themselves in their basements see the news and want to top it by doing something worse, and going out in a memorable way. Why a grade school? Why children? Because he'll be remembered as a horrible monster, instead of a sad nobody.

CNN's article says that if the body count "holds up", this will rank as the second deadliest shooting behind Virginia Tech, as if statistics somehow make one shooting worse than another. Then they post a video interview of third-graders for all the details of what they saw and heard while the shootings were happening. Fox News has plastered the killer's face on all their reports for hours. Any articles or news stories yet that focus on the victims and ignore the killer's identity? None that I've seen yet. Because they don't sell. So congratulations, sensationalist media, you've just lit the fire for someone to top this and knock off a day care center or a maternity ward next.

You can help by forgetting you ever read this man's name, and remembering the name of at least one victim. instead of pointing to gun control as the problem. You can help by turning off the news."

Whether it was a hoax or not the left and right media are out off control.This scumbag got his wish in the end. We can never calculate the years of contributions lost that these young souls had to offer to society .Yet we hear about the disgusting monster who contributed sorrow and pain for these families. Everybody reading this should strive to learn more about the victims first before the villain , including myself.