Also, I don't want to limit your rights, I want to protect my life and the lives of others including yours. I don't want to be a part of a workplace, movie theater, school or mall massacre shooting.  The chance an American will be murdered by a gun is .0041%, and only less than 2% of those are mass shootings. The threat is overblown. The flu kills almost 3 times as many Americans annually as gun murder.  You do want to make us safe...by limiting our rights. There is no denying that. It's a total misunderstanding of natural rights to say we are gifted or granted these rights from the govt....they aren't "Constitutional rights", they are natural rights you get from being a human, and these rights predate the existence of nation-states (or any state) in the world. The Constitution merely recognizes a few of those rights, and even they were repealed by Amendment it would be tyranny, not an end of the existence of those rights. Read the Founders directly on the subject of natural rights...they didn't mean for the Bill of Rights to be voted on...they meant to describe a few important unrepealable rights. Hamilton was against the Bill of TRights...precisely because he was afraid people in the future would mistake them for being up for repeal or vote.  Less than 2% of gun murders are mass shootings. Bathtubs kill more Americans (300 annually) than mass shootings.  40-70% of gun murders are caused by drug laws (the Drug War). The next most prevelant cause is domestic violence.  And county by county in the USA, when all of them are studied, and nation by nation when transnational studies look at all countries, gun murder rates, and murder rates generally, are not correlated to gun ownership or clip sizes or assault rifle proliferation. It is negatively correlated in fact...the nations with higher murder and suicide rates generally have lower gun ownership rates, while nations with lower murder and suicide rates have higher gun ownership rates. There simply is no causality if there isn o correlation. What is correlated to high murder and suicide rates are countries with Drug Wars...the more strict the worse it is.  If you really want to solve the gun murder issue you'll address the legalization of drugs and domestic violence against kids and women...not guns and clips. It's clear what is the major cause, and what is not. That will not fit this current crusade against guns though...  ...so it a political agenda against guns? Or is it you want to stop murder, including gun murder?  I implore you to look at all the stats and studies, not cherry picking stats that fit your preconceived notions.  Start with Obama's own school (Harvard Law and Public Policy)...they have a study I link in post #2.3  It shows the top 8 gun control nations have 3 times higher murder and suicide rates than do the 8 highest gun ownership nations. That's a pretty telling fact..it means there can be no correlation between gun ownership rates and murder and suicide rates. If you read the study, and my other links in that post, you'll see the facts lead away from many false scapegoats (like mental illness, guns, clip sizes, abortion laws, single parenthood, one religion or another (or lack thereof), etc.,etc.,etc.), and lead to the Drug War and domestic violence.  We all want to stop murder, especially gun murder. We do that by expanding rights, not limiting them. End the Drug War, stop spanking childtren, and stop hitting women...those are the major solutions.  The Prohibition of alcohol started in 1920-1921, and that year crime rates increased 24%. During the 13 year War on Alcohol, the crime rate went up 78%. It was in 1933 that Prohibition was repealed, and in that one year the murder trate fell 40%. We can do that again...we can cut murder by 40-70% in one year, most of which are gun murders. But we have to legalize drugs to do it, not ban guns or clips, or add more useless regulations to either.  When the assault weapons ban was in effect they did not ban the type of gun that was used in this mass shooting. That was a legal rifle under that law. That ban didn't do anythingt o stpetetdt he decrease of gun murders or murder generally, and when it expired the murder and gun murder rate continued to fall. The ban did nothing, literally. Our murder and gun murder rates have been falling since 1980, even as guns have gotten more numerous, clips have gotten higher capacity, and permits to carry guns have gotten more widespread.  And England has a higher total crime rate and violent crime rate than America. The murder rate is not the whole story. Crime rates and violent crime trates are also higher in nations with lower gun ownership rates, when you look at all nations acorss a large study. There have been at least 15 such studies, all with the same results.  I am not an NRA member, as I do not like their racist history as a man of color. I am not in the GOA either. My stats are not their studies. These are from Universities and governments' websites. I think the liberals are wrong, the conservatives are wrong, and the NRA is wrong. The problems are the drug laws and domestic violence. But no one is talking about that because it doesn't fit into their established ideologies. People are too close minded too look at the facts.  I beg you, don't be like that. It's costing real lives.
Emotions ran high Sunday evening as dozens gathered at St. John’s Episcopal Church in Newtown, Conn., to discuss violence prevention and gun control.