Not to minimize this horrible tragedy but it puts me in mind of the gun debate.
Are they going to try to regulate the sale of pressure cookers now?
The rationale behind controlling automatic weapons and high capacity magazines is that they are able to kill a lot of people quickly. However, a well placed and well made IED also kills people very efficiently. And from what I understand the instructions are available on the web.
My point is that evil will find a way-any way-and even if you take away conventional weapons, people bent on death and destruction will find unconventional ones.
However, I still believe in background checks mostly to keep the people who have protection orders against them and the truly psychotic from getting weapons - however we all know that the real criminals will get them anyway.
But background checks wouldn't have stopped Newtown. Not unless you ban relatives of the mentally ill from getting weapons.
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