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By DAVE COLLINS, Associated Press
HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Parents of the Newtown school shooting victims say they’re frustrated with the opposition to gun control proposals prompted by the massacre and are calling on Congress to act.
One parent has even invited the head of the National Rifle Association to her home on Easter weekend to try to reach middle ground. Nelba Marquez-Greene’s 6-year-old daughter Ana was among 20 first-graders and six educators killed at Sandy Hook Elementary School in December.
Neil Heslin was among several parents of children killed in the shootings who joined Vice President Joe Biden and New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg in Manhattan on Thursday to call on Congress to pass an assault weapons ban and other measures.
Heslin says he’s ashamed that Congress “doesn’t have the guts” to pass gun control measures.
Many feel terrible about the tragedy .. but the notion that an assault weapon ban will do anything to protect us from a crazy nut is not reality ..
There are 300,000,000 guns in this country .. if folks want to help change minds instead of violating the rights of the second amendment, then the justice system might give folks who use guns in crimes some serious time in prison .. but that will still not prevent some whacko from a mass shooting …
im so sick of this..if anyone really thinks that taking away guns from legitimate owners is gonna solve something then your blind.. these people are following the laws and the innocent good people will be the only ones effected by this.. WHY ? cuz criminals dont care whether guns are illegal or not.. they will get them.. there are sooooo many guns already in possesion of criminals what will it change?.. citizens being able to defend themselves and love ones thats what.. you know what theyre pushing us to the point of?.. Making our own guns!.. which may I add is NOT illegal.. take away the constitutional rights of americans and you can count on a rebellion.
Assault weapons assault weapons, when will people learn that the cosmetics to make it look cooler is what makes it a supposed assault weapons.. A full auto rifle is an assault weapon a semi auto AR is not..
This isn’t going to stop the sicko’s who are illegally using these firearms to commit these crimes. Maybe we should also crack down on the sources and means as to where they are illegally getting the firearms and ammo from. Its terrible that they have to go through this tragedy.
It is not a question of guns, it is a question of how do we give these people hope in life. Right now there are people graduating with big debt and no hope for work, nothing to look forward to. There is no “American dream” anymore. Mr Obama is making the country into a “hand out” society. Bigger government means a turn to a communism type country. We need to bring back jobs and true values to our nation. We need to get these kids thinking about their future. Give them something to live for. We all need to stop voting for the hand out party and stop turning this country into a third world nation.
Not trying to sound like a **** here but its not that hard people; GUNS DONT KILL, PEOPLE DO! Take control of the people through conviction rates and proper medical psych evals and it wont happen as much. Because if theres no access to guns then people are just going to start killing by other means; bombs, knives, etc. The sooner people figure this out the better. Plus, the major debate was large cap mags for .223′s and come to find out one was not even used! SMH!
who is the hand out party ?
because they both are , one helps the poor the other helps the banks and terrorist