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I can't stand it... Gets on my nerves too.

It's not surprising, but it is infuriating that it is allowed to continue. Is our society so stupid now that they can't hold the media accountable?

It's even more sickening how people refuse to change after 20 children and 6 adults were left dead from the hands of a dangerous weapon that should never be allowed.

Correction: "from the hands of a dangerous, psychotic individual that should never be allowed freedom."

Mental health issues need to be taken seriously in our country. Too many people out there that aren't fit for society without treatment.

people don't rape themselves? damn, who knew?

Why not handguns too? 95% of handguns are semi-automatic and have high capacity magazines. But they can be concealed very easily. But ppl are freaking out over "ARs". Doesn't make sense other than the fact that 20 children were massacred and emotions are high right now(and rightfully so). I live out in the country. it would take cops or "help" 45 minutes to reach me in time to outline my cold body with white chalk. So my gun collection reflects that fact. If they wanna ban guns in the city or suburbs--fine. But people in the country don't have city folks sense of security. We have to fend for ourselves. Call me paranoid but a monster just slaughtered 20 kids... I have every right to be paranoid--and armed.

I used to think that way, but I learned about them and even shot one. The rounds are barely bigger than a .22.

If they were called a .223 instead of an assault rifle, the people calling for gun bans wouldn't even know about them.

Paranoid? Maybe see a shrink.

How would you stop him from getting the AR? Change the law so shrinks have to report everyone's mental health status to the government? What about the people who don't go to the shrink? A federal law mandating everyone get evaluated ever so often? And since the weapons belonged to his mom do you propose some weird law to change how people store weapons if someone in their family is mentally ill? Sounds like a big expansion of federal interference in normal lives.

Also locking up the mentally ill would break state budgets. The reason state mental hospitals closed in the first place was because states couldn't afford to maintain them. The cost of medical care has skyrocketed since then so there is no way states could pay for mental hospitals without taxes skyrocketing. And I don't even want to imagine what a federally run mental health system would look like.

There is no perfect answer here, even if ARs were banned again nobody is going door to door to reclaim weapons. But restrictions on weapon type and magazine capacity are probably the easiest and cheapest. Wading in mental health would be a nightmare. And due to the stigma attached with being mentally ill a lot of people don't get screened. So many spree killers don't have a diagnosis before they commit their crimes.

This is why we need the 2nd amendment. It was put in place when the the 1st amendment fails, which it is now. When the press is no longer keep the government honest and fighting for the people, that is when the republic is near the end. The 2nd amendment was put in place is a 100 million man army is much more dangerous than a 1 million US Army. It was the ultimate check on the system the founders put in place. If we give it away to politicians we and our children deserve whatever we get.

When an armed man opened fire on a crowded shopping mall in Oregon last week, 22-year-old Nick Meli pulled out his concealed carry permitted gun, and took cover in a store before taking aim.
“I know after he saw me, I think the last shot he fired was the one he used on himself,” Meli reported of the gunman’s suicide that followed to KGW News Channel 8. Two people died at the hands of the shooter before the man took his own life, but many more could have lost their lives in Oregon that day had Meli not been there.
Yesterday in San Antonio, Texas, two people were wounded in another movie theater shooting before an off-duty officer took the gunman down, wounding him and effectively ending the murder spree before anyone else could get hurt.
As with other shootings stopped by lawfully armed citizens, news about these two incidents has been widely limited to local media outlets and seemingly ignored otherwise. Why the mainstream blackout?
Even though the media has struggled with reporting the actual facts of the Connecticut shooting, all the national news outlets seem to have time to publish are propaganda pieces pushing gun control.
In Reuters this morning, one headline reads, “In Newtown, an Anguished Debate over Gun Rights, Controls,” and the subhead reads, “Two days after a gunman opened fire in a Connecticut elementary school, killing 26 people, several dozen parents and children gathered in a circle at Newtown’s public library to draw something positive from the town’s sudden, tragic notoriety” (emphasis added).
CNN’s Don Lemon used his airtime this morning to go on an anti-gun tirade, claiming mental health issues are secondary to gun availability.
News outlet Salon went to task posting gun control stories and targeting preppers on its site and official Twitter account all weekend, even writing a hit piece on Alex Jones. In “What’s a Prepper?,” Salon’s Katie McDonough notes, “Preppers believe having weapons is just as important as having enough water. They are also deeply suspicious of government overreach, sounding Tea Party-like…”
The Atlantic‘s Senior Editor Robert Wright offered, “A Gun Control Law that Would Actually Work,” going beyond the assault weapons ban Senator Dianne Feinstein has promised she will introduce during Congress’ first 2013 session. Wright calls for a ban on any gun that can hold more than six bullets. Feinstein is not alone, either; USA Today is reporting “the most prominent pro-gun member of Congress” with an NRA “A” rating Senator Joe Manchin has announced the horrific mass shootings have “changed” him. Manchin is now calling for more control on public firearm purchasing power.
MSNBC asked, “Is the American Public Ready for Gun Control?” Politico gave us, “The Price of the Second Amendment,” presenting the argument that the lives of the children in Connecticut are what we must pay to have the right to keep and bear arms.
Anti-gun op-eds abound. The Huffington Post published, “Gun Control and Mental Health Funding—If Not Now, When?” and “The Real 2nd Amendment Isn’t the NRA Version.” The Washington Post posted, “Now Is the Time for Meaningful Gun Control.” The Christian Science Monitor declared, “Madison Never Meant Second Amendment to Allow Guns of Sandy Hook Shooting.”
In the wake of the Connecticut tragedy, a White House.gov citizen petition for “legislation that limits access to guns” put up the day of the school shooting already garnered over 150,000 signatures in just three days, breaking the record for the most-signed petition on the government’s site. People across the nation have also flocked to gun buyback programs to willingly turn their guns in.
Following an outcry on Facebook this weekend, the Discovery Channel announced its show “American Guns” was canceled. Even the National Rifle Association has fallen silent on social media sites, reportedly taking down its Facebook page and not responding on Twitter since the shooting.
As Alex Jones reported on his radio show today, “Here’s the real newsflash folks—they’re coming for our guns. Make no mistake.”
Although our government is responsible for the Fast and Furious gunwalking scandal that put guns in Mexican drug cartel hands that have since resulted in thousands of deaths, and Obama’s drone strike kill list is reportedly responsible for the murders of nearly 200 children among thousands of dead innocents in the Middle East, the president somehow found the ability to wipe away fake tears at a press conference following the Connecticut school shooting.
In the Newtown massacre fallout, an all-out war has been declared on We the People’s right to keep and bear arms.
The mainstream media has politicized the Connecticut school shooting to the point that using the tragedy to demonize the 2nd Amendment has seemingly become an Olympic event. Where is the supposedly objective media now to report on the other examples of guns in the hands of properly permitted American citizens saving people’s lives?
Declaring we need stricter gun laws and to repeal the 2nd Amendment is synonymous with saying, “We want criminals and the government to be the only ones armed in America.” Because if our legal arms are stripped from law-abiding citizens, the only people who will have guns will be the government and the criminals.
The problem is, the line between the two is so blurry, it’s nearly impossible to tell who is who anymore.
“The lessons of history are numerous, clear and bloody. A disarmed population inevitably becomes an enslaved population. A disarmed population is without power, reduced to childlike obedience to—and dependence upon—the organs of a parental state. A disarmed population will lose—either piecemeal or in one sweeping act—those basic rights for which the citizens of America risked their lives and fortunes over two hundred years ago.” — Brian Puckett

so you don't think he couldve done it with a shot gun? lol.. or a revolver? easily. so narrow minded its 'sickening'