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To politicians, banning all semi-automatic weapons or large magazines in guns sounds like a good solution to stop mass murders, but it isnt.
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I want to prevent mass murders from happening in schools, not merely reduce their number of victims. Im not willing to accept six dead first-graders instead of 20. Im not willing to accept a single dead teacher or principal or schoolchild.
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Ill never forget what Mike Luty, aduedu2315.typepad.com the head of the Secret Service detail who was with me the day my ther was shot, said to me when I asked, How can you allow this to happen? Luty said, We train 24/7, but we cant stop the crazies.
It could be a local police officer or a private security guard. And taxpayers would be willing to pay the price for knowing their kids were being protected by more than security cameras and locked doors.
But no matter what we do, evil people, crazy people and troubled suicidal young white males will always have access to guns and theyll plan their lethal attacks in secret and carry them out.
Some of the strictest gun laws in the country dont stop the gang-bangers of Chicago from slaughtering each other by the hundreds each year over drug turf.
The disturbed man who tried to kill him didnt use an assault rifle or a semi-automatic to carry out his plan. Before he was wrestled to the ground, he got off six shots in 1.7 seconds with a revolver.
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Not a retired police officer or a t guy in a cheap uniform who sits in a chair all day. A real guard with a real loaded gun that he or she knows how to use and is authorized to shoot.
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Connecticut already had tough gun laws. So did Norway, where last year an evil extremist used guns and bombs to randomly kill 77 people mostly teenagers.
And the only way to bring the death toll down to zero in our schools is to put trained armed guards in every one of them.
Lets get real. America has an estimated 300 million guns. We could make owning a gun a capital crime today and by tomorrow 100 million guns would be hidden in our closets and buried in our backyards.
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We wont stop future Virginia Techs if we make it tougher to buy a gun legally or if we shut down all gun shows on the continent for the rest of time.
Good people, bad people and crazy people would still have access to tens of millions of guns and the ammunition they need. All the strict laws Michael Bloomberg or Sen. Dianne Feinstein can dream up wont change that.
We wont stop future Newtowns if we outlaw every military-style assault weapon in America.
Security is never foolproof. When my ther was shot in 1981, he was the most protected person in America, surrounded by heavily armed and trained bodyguards.
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We cant stop every crazy in America who is intent on committing mass murder, either, but we can try. We need to fix our mental health system so its better able to identify potential killers before they kill, and we need to find ways parents can provide help to their kids over 18 without needing a court order.
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Shocker students can be a sixth man with deafening noise at Koch Arena The challenge cing this seasons Creighton basketball team when it visits Koch on Saturday to play the Shockers is to try to take one of college basketballs most fervent followings out of the game Michael Reagan Focus on school security not gun laws, crazy lawsand strip the Shockers of one of the best home-court advantages.
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We wont stop future Auroras if we outlaw semi-automatic pistols or rifles, or mandate that no magazine clip can ever hold more than 10 rounds.
More gun control and gun-free zones wont stop them, but guns will. Putting armed guards with loaded weapons in our schools is the only sure way we can keep our future mass murderers from hurting any more of our innocent children.
Its not tougher gun control, stupid.
No matter how much tougher we make our gun laws, well never prevent future tragedies like the murder of those innocents in Newtown, Conn.
Those laws might keep the death toll in the single digits, but they wont stop another killing spree like the one at Sandy Hook Elementary from occurring in the first place.