Over 1,057,000 people have been killed by guns in the USA since John Lennon was shot and killed...

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88. We don't need to take everyone's gun, we just need reasonable gun control.

Australia did it. Canada did it. Britain did it. We can do it too. I agree we need more education. People need to understand that guns don't make them safer; that it is just the opposite. Maybe then less people will choose to purchase guns and there will be less suicides...and domestic violence shootings. We were able to dramatically reduce smoking with anti-tobacco ads. And yes, getting mentally ill people helped is a huge need, but for now, Republicans refuse to pay for it. But 2014 is coming.

There was no "chest thumping" on the left over the AWB. The only people chest thumping are the gun nuts. Folks like a gungeoneer on this board who brayed about what a "spectacular failure" the AWB was, even though it has yet to be voted on. Reid did promise to let it get a vote as an amendment (which is how it was enacted in 1994--as an amendment). Hell, 6 months ago, no one would have imagined that anyone would have proposed an AWB, let alone get one voted on.

Gun nuts have been running out and buying guns in droves since Obama got elected. That is no reason to just give up. Sandy Hook has changed the country. I don't think there is any turning back.