Today I am reading in the San Francisco Gate about how neither Romney nor Obama will address gun control. The author of the article state, "A reasonable country would have taken steps to curb these tragedies years ago. Strong federal gun-control laws wouldn't stop every murder in the United States, but they surely would make it far more difficult to have a world in which a 24-year-old easily can purchase assault-style rifles and shotguns and walk into a dark, crowded theater." http://www.sfgate.com/opinion/editorials/article/Tragedy-shows-need-for-gun-control-3723694.php
First off, you can't pass gun laws that will take away simple shotguns and pistols as used in this awful tragedy. Secondly, you should take a look into what an AR-15 is. Just because you call something an assault rifle, you automatically assume that its something very dangerous. It's a rifle that is fired semi-automatically. This means in order to shoot it you must pull the trigger each time you want it to fire. As opposed to a fully-automatic weapon, where you pull the trigger and the gun fires on its own as many times as it can until you let go of the trigger or it runs out of bullets.
These weapons are standard weapons in most peoples gun safe's. Trying to take away these guns would never work because so many people own them and would not allow the government to do this.
Remember the awful assailant also used a chemical weapon as well. Should we ban all plastics from being sold? Should we ban all chemicals from being sold? Where do you draw the line? Next time if someone goes on a rampage with a knife, should we ban knives? Are we going to take the steak knife out of your kitchen so that you don't use it?
Gun laws will not be changed, and should not be changed after this tragic event. What we need to discover is what caused this guy to go nuts, and how we can solve that problem in the future.
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