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Even while the president has acknowledged the political difficulties associated with gun laws, he said this week that the complexity of the problem "can no longer be an excuse for doing nothing." Unlike in the cases of previous mass murders, new evidence suggests Americans increasingly support tougher gun control in the wake of the Newtown massacres. According to a recent CBS News poll, support for stricter gun laws is the highest it's been in a decade, surging 18 points since the spring of this year. According to that poll, conducted Dec. 14 - 16, 57 percent of Americans now say gun control laws should be made more strict. That's up 10 points from January 2011 -- following the shooting of then-Rep. Gabrielle Giffords in Arizona -- when a CBS News poll found that 47 percent of Americans backed stricter gun laws. In April of this year, just 39 percent of Americans supported stricter gun laws. In a statement today, Daniel Gross, the president of the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence, urged NRA members to "join us" in fighting to end gun violence. "To the 74 percent of NRA members who support requiring a criminal background check of anyone purchasing a gun... To the 87 percent of NRA members who believe that the 2nd Amendment can coexist with efforts to keep illegal guns out of the hands of criminals... To all NRA members who believe like we do, that we are better than this, we send this message... Join us," he wrote. "Join us in making sure the gun violence ends now. We are all Americans and we all agree we are better than this." |
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sam hall said on Thursday, Dec 27 at 10:40 PM
It has been reported that in some of the school shootings of the past years there were trained police at those particular schools yet they were not able to stop the shootings. Is this then a fool proof way of being able to or not? Perhaps the best way is to be able to have ways to see when a ? person with guns comes on the school grounds and then able to have a trained police person stop them right there and have a back up for that person as well.
110111256I don't wanna grow up said on Wednesday, Dec 26 at 12:18 PM
I am a Toys Are Us Kid...corporate advertisers should be sniffing out that scenerio for sales of toys and further deflate social fears...mix it with tours of the bases and your good to go...investors can divert funds and make some money the old way for once...let me know how that works...same money...more moral and ethics to the profits this time eh?
110025226Anonymous said on Saturday, Dec 22 at 12:16 PM
I got an idea...two birds with one stone...take the soldiers who got back and are fit to work...make the VA pay them to be in the schools...and watch a soldier be a kid again...be silly...and the security is there for the kids and the therapy for the soldier...Toys are Us... Take the college kids and pay their work-study to observe the children and the soldiers...wouldn't hurt the soldier to "digress" and be funny...get it on tape...play hide and go seek at school... The funding for the VA recipients and the work-study students is way cheaper and already in place then the monies it would take to put "armed guards" in the school...I think fatigues with no guns of the soldiers playing with the kids would be message enough...and therapeutic as well...
109828306Rick said on Saturday, Dec 22 at 11:53 AM
Maybe we should start with stun guns first. It will be hard for police to identify the shooter if there are a lot of people armed in the school. If there is a mistake and someone is shot with the stun gun; it will not be lethal. Too many guns in the school seems like a bad idea. Having armed guards would be a great deterrent and can protect our kids and give individuals jobs.
109827226umm mike said on Friday, Dec 21 at 9:18 PM
they can't use cops in Anchorage. if the janitor comes bear the cop pushing anything with a broom handle he will get shot
109793855LJ said on Friday, Dec 21 at 3:09 PM
I think that a Principal and Vice Principal could be trained and have a gun and that would help protect our children we don't need to hire more people to be in schools, we have plenty to train and arm that are already there.
109777171JakeW said on Friday, Dec 21 at 2:56 PM
Since it is very obvious that the need to do this is based upon the availability of guns, including those that can rapidly murder people, the only way to make sense to fund this entirely by heavy taxation on guns and stiff license fees for gun owners that would include mandatory gun training for gun owners. That way, they will be, a "well-regulated militia"
109776376Tarah S said on Friday, Dec 21 at 1:45 PM
Thousands of Unemployed Veterans already trained. Why not train them as teachers aids, put them in classrooms around the country. Should the need arise we are already there ready to defend our kids and schools. Sort of like the air marshal program, but make as a teacher aid. I am an unemployed veteran. I love my kids and wouldn't mind hanging out with them all day, I just need the right training. Already trained with a weapon.
109772766Anonymous said on Friday, Dec 21 at 12:29 PM
yeah hows those ritcher investments going? and that assault rifle named after you know who...whatever! This is just a staged event...yes...planned attacks! To push the sales of guns and heighten fears...gee and we have how many soldiers out of work...who have kids that are in school?
109768076Anonymous said on Friday, Dec 21 at 11:37 AM
Vice Principal Joel Myrick, find this guy and read his story and how he saved kids and teachers from a shooting that could have been more tragic. Why don't we see any of these stories in the mainstream.
109764202Mike B said on Friday, Dec 21 at 9:16 AM
Use off duty cops as subs to randomly place armed officers (with concealed weapons) in schools. Change any laws to allow this. This could disrupt the planning of school shooters. And you already have trained, screened people.
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