Hey President Obama, you know all those nuts who are afraid you're going to take their guns away?

[proud2BlibKansan]

You can take their guns now.

[enlightenment]

1. Please.

Please.
Please.

[patrice]

2. America's teachers have every right to fear for the lives of their students and themselves. nt

[jillan]

3. As soon as the new and improved Congress is sworn in, it's time for us to push for this.

Let him get thru this fiscal bs first.... I'll give him that....

but time is up.

[patrice]

5. I think that should be a dual front: Mental Health parity in all health insurance coverage. Teachers

know quite a bit about this particular need, first hand, too.

And controlling guns without addressing the ROOT CAUSES of violence will only cause the violence to morph into other manifestations.

We NEED to begin by admitting that we need and WANT to take care of one another, so we should provide opportunities for people to begin to address their own problems - themselves - with widely established availability of appropriate mental health resources - NOT JUST THE MISBEGOTTEN CHURCHES, which is the current knee-jerk response to these issues.

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4. You're saying Obama should ban all guns (for private citizens)?

[lastlib]

6. no, just the ones that kill people.

Law-abiding hunters can keep theirs--locked up.

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14. So if you're not a hunter you can't own a gun?

And Obama must make it so that law-abiding citizens who may wish to own a gun for protection and self-defense should be forbidden to do so?

[patrice]

7. my GUESS, is not, but that TEACHERS have unusually high risk problems regarding the safety of their

students and themselves.

Banning ownership is not the answer, because it won't work.

AND it'll just be treating symptoms without being honest about ROOT CAUSES of violence, most of which begin and end in families who, in various ways/dimensions/levels, are OUT of resources. Teachers see all of this first hand, so I don't blame them for feeling more threatened than you or I.

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13. +1. nt

[kestrel91316]

8. The Constitution REQUIRES that the Militia be "well-regulated". Time for our

government bodies to obey the Constitution and regulate hell out of gun ownership/possession.

Because as it stands right now, the regulation part is a miserable effing failure.

[proud2BlibKansan]

10. Exactly

We seem to forget about the well regulated part.

[Hoyt]

9. Swiss have it down - keep one gun locked up at home, and almost nobody can walk around with one.

More importantly, guns are not revered.

Sadly, the friggin gun stores will be full tomorrow of yahoos drooling all over popular lethal weapons marketed to appeal to their baser instincts. And the carnage goes on to delight of gun culture.

[proud2BlibKansan]

11. I've already had 2 friends text me telling me I should get a gun

and carry it to school.

And this shooting was just a few hours ago.

[Hoyt]

12. I don't doubt it. It really is sick. Feel proud of walking in public without a gun.

[proud2BlibKansan]

23. I do.

[spanone]

15. please Mr. President,do not disappoint the gun nuts.

[bvar22]

16. Great IDEA!!!!

Under the Corporate Power Sharing Agreement, The Republicans are scheduled to re-take the White House in 2016 anyway.

Your proposal will make it EASY for them to sweep in 2016.

[proud2BlibKansan]

22. If the alternative is kids staying alive, they can HAVE the White House.

Easy choice.

[Autumn]

17. I want him to take away assault weapons.

No reason for those.

[NeedleCast]

18. Assault weapons are already illegal

No assault weapons were used in the shootings today.

[Autumn]

20. The CT shooter armed with a "high-powered assault rifle." Six bullets a SECOND

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10021979813

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/ct-school-shooter-made-combat-weapon-article-1.1220431

[proud2BlibKansan]

21. Then tell the cops to quit calling them that.

Every time one of these whatever you want to call them rifles is used in a shooting, the cops call it an assault rifle, tell us it was purchased legally and the gun folks tell us 'no, those weapons are already illegal'.

So please. Go argue with the cops. I don't give a FUCK what you want to call this gun - it was used to murder kindergarteners today. So arguing about what it's called seems pretty pointless.

[Fearless]

19. You could have done it before this tragedy.

And you now have the opportunity to do it before the next one. Or they die too. And the ones after that. And the ones after that. And the ones after that. As you sit on your hands and hem and haw about not "politicizing" the issue.