On the events unfolding in Colorado Springs right now....

[tgards79]

What will it take for our elected officials to act?
http://www.borntorunthenumbers.com/2015/11/on-todays-shootings-in-colorado-springs.html

[niyad]

1. I wouldn't hold my breath, if I were you.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

2. If 20 kids getting shot at Sandy Hook didn't do it, I don't know what will.

[spanone]

5. amen. i still can't process that one. how could we not....?

[LiberalElite]

9. yes - at that time i thought "now they have to do something"

silly, silly, silly me.

P.s. I learned about that atrocity on the subway - saw it posted on DU and thought Oh Shit! One of those "where were you when..." moments.

[valerief]

3. They're trying their hardest to ban abortion.

Oh, you meant guns. They'll never fuckin' do anything about our gun problem. They hate us.

[jonno99]

4. What "act" should our elected officials perform to keep guns away from crazy people? nt

[OffWithTheirHeads]

7. Yeah, that horse left the barn a long time ago. Even if you made gun ownership illeagle

you would have no way of rounding up all of the unregistered guns and there are millions of them.

[tgards79]

21. Can we start with background checks?

90% of us want it...

[NRaleighLiberal]

6. Nothing. They never will.

[Lizzie Poppet]

8. "Act" is about as broad a term as you can use. What do you propose?

What steps do you believe would prevent such acts, or at least make them rarer?

[deathrind]

10. Nothing will ever happen on...

On gun control. As was stated already if 20 children being executed could not get basic common sense regulations (BG checks on all gun sales private and commercial, yearly registration, mag caps, safety training etc) nothing will ever get done. It is amazing how someone can advocate the right to own an item that can kill a person instantly while at the same time argue against regulations that enhance safety and responsibility of that ownership.

[hack89]

11. You don't realize the irony in your post

nothing you listed would have stopped Sandy Hook. CT had an AWB - the rifle was not legally an assault weapon. It was registered. It was locked up. Nancy Lanza was well trained. She passed a background check.

[tgards79]

13. Oh great!

So hack89, let's do absolutely nothing! Great idea!

[hack89]

16. I didn't say that

just pointing out that CT had damn near every measure gun control advocates demand and it still didn't stop Sandy Hook. Perhaps it is not as black and white as you think.

[deathrind]

14. So...

Because it would not have stopped that nothing should be done...ok

But that is not the only mass casualty event that has taken place. They happen regularly now.

A ban on high cap mags alone would save lives.

[hack89]

17. Never said that

I support most gun control proposals with only two exceptions- AWBs and registration.

High cap mags were not used at VA Tech.

[deathrind]

19. Fair enough.

High cap mags were used in... Tucson/ Aroura just to name a few.

http://m.motherjones.com/politics/2013/01/high-capacity-magazines-mass-shootings#data

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1n5iBFfRhlYuI3SNpM0AIL5imDT3jt-z3b7vpTfkrK2o/htmlview?pli=1#gid=0

[hack89]

20. There are literally hundreds of millions of high cap mags in America

they will always be available to someone that wants them.

[Snobblevitch]

12. I wonder what laws could be passed that would

prevent somebody intent on doing this type of act from doing so.

[tgards79]

15. Let's give it a shot and find out

Right now we are proving Einstein out...if we do nothing, how can we expect change?

[Snobblevitch]

18. Give what a shot?

(Pun intended?)

I support universal background checks. I am opposed to AWB and gun registration as well. Gun bans just won't do much if someone is intent on causing carnage.