Virginia Tech anniversary creates difficult moment on gun control for lawmakers

[sarisataka]

1. Interesting, and I was with you until the first 'left turn'

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You see "within the context of "a well-regulated Militia.""; I see "the right of the people".

But rather than that poor horse- public safety. I recently rediscovered this counter point to waste keystrokes and bandwidth on :

Times Online (UK) Sept 8th 2007
Authored by Richard Munday - editor and co-author of Guns & Violence: the Debate Before Lord Cullen

Despite the recent spate of shootings on our streets, we pride ourselves on our strict gun laws. Every time an American gunman goes on a killing spree, we shake our heads in righteous disbelief at our poor benighted colonial cousins. Why is it, even after the Virginia Tech massacre, that Americans still resist calls for more gun controls?

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Gun controls disarm only the law-abiding, and leave predators with a freer hand. Nearly two and a half million people now fall victim to crimes of violence in Britain every year, more than four every minute: crimes that may devastate lives. It is perhaps a privilege of those who have never had to confront violence to disparage the power to resist.

http://www.maltashootingsports.com/shootingtalk/index.php?topic=2634.msg19620

I agree that lawmakers are not forced to do anything, but we tell then what we want and they should do it.