Now is the Time for Comprehensive Gun Control

Submitted by Chris Lugo for ... on Mon, 07/28/2008 - 09:29.

Many Tennesseans were stunned to hear the news that yesterday morning at 10:18am a lone gunman walked into a welcoming congregation in Knoxville and opened fire on the congregants who were gathered in anticipation of watching their children perform a scene from the musical "Annie" as part of the morning services, killing two people and shooting several more in the head before being tackled to the ground. That church, the Tennessee Valley Unitarian Universalist Church, is a beacon of joy and hope in East Tennessee. Its congregation is made up of some of the most loving, kind and gentle people in the fine city of Knoxville, and the horrific tragedy which was visited upon that church is a wakeup call to good people throughout Tennessee to re-examine our approach to gun control in Tennessee and throughout this nation.

Sadly this is not the first nor the last example of guns in churches, schools and public spaces being used to kill innocent men, women and children. In the past decade alone, dozens of people have been killed in our nations schools, churches and public gathering places by people who had obtained guns legally and illegally with the sole intention of killing unarmed civilians. The public school shooting rampage phenomenon started here in the South only a decade ago when two students in Jonesboro, Arkansas opened fire on their fellow middle school students killing five and wounding eleven. Since that time our nation has witnessed school shootings in over a dozen states with victims numbering in the hundreds. There have also been shootings at shopping malls and church shootings in the past year in Texas, Colorado and now Tennessee.

Unfortunately, in many of these cases, the guns that were used in the commission of felony first degree homicides were obtained legally. Either the guns were in possession of parents who were not able to keep the guns from the access of their children, or in some cases rifles were used. In many states there are no laws regarding the use of these weapons by minors. In other cases guns were obtained illegally. No matter how the gun was obtained, it was used in the commission of a crime against men, women and children who lost their parents, children or grandchildren as was the case today in Knoxville.

I cannot imagine the horror of the children yesterday watching as their parents were shot in front of them, but this incident further illustrates to me the need for effective gun control regulations at the federal level. The fact is that guns kill people and in the United States they kill a lot of people. The United States has the highest per capita murder rate in the developed world, with 14 people per 100,000 dying of gun violence each year. This adds up to nearly 10,000 people a year who die at the hands of a gun, not including the additional 16,000 suicides that happen each year with the use of a gun. This is nearly thirty three times the number of Americans who have been killed in Iraq since the beginning of the war.

The recent Supreme Court ruling on the second amendment by the Bush and Reagan stacked court insures that our nation's cities can continue to live in perpetual fear of similar incidents happening around the nation as what happened in Knoxville on Sunday. Cities are already scrambling to deal with the chilling new reality handed down by the Supreme Court this summer, which seems to mean that it is open season for every crazy person who can get their hands on a gun in our nation’s urban centers.

There is a solution though, and it is up to Congress to exercise the political will to make a decision to pass laws which place strict limits on gun ownership and to hold gun sellers strictly accountable for who they sell their products to. We have a responsibility to protect our children and our nation’s citizens have a right to live free of the fear of being visited with violence as they go about their daily lives of working, shopping and worshiping as they choose. As a candidate for federal office I believe that federal government has the responsibility to place strict limits on gun ownership in this country. Gun rights advocates argue that guns make us safe, but I believe that a heavily armed nation is a dangerous place to live. It is time to make our country safe for our children. Now is the time for comprehensive gun control for a safer America.

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Move to England

Submitted by Anonymous on Mon, 07/28/2008 - 13:28.

You need to move to England ... they have gun control that fixed NOTHING.

It was a shotgun

Submitted by Anonymous on Mon, 07/28/2008 - 19:44.

I'm pretty sure those are legal in the UK.

Shotguns will never be banable. There's simply too many legitimate reasons to have one.

Aren't current laws enough?

Submitted by Anonymous on Mon, 07/28/2008 - 14:21.

Chris,

Murder is illegal, the person who walked into that church planned to commit murder and keep killing until people with guns arrived to take him down. How many laws did he break in planning and committing this crime?

Do you honestly think that having guns be illegal would have stopped this crime? "Oh, I would commit mass murder, but I can't legally buy a gun"!! Not likely to happen.

Places like Chicago, Washington D.C. England have had comprehensive gun control for decades; are they safer then the places that don't? No.

I'm not sure where you are getting your numbers, but USA is not the highest per capita murder rate in the world, it's not even the highest per capita firearm murder rates.

Link...

Please show me a place where the average citizen has been made safer by gun control laws.

Murder is illegal, the

Submitted by Andy Axel on Mon, 07/28/2008 - 17:27.

Murder is illegal, the person who walked into that church planned to commit murder and keep killing until people with guns arrived to take him down.

And guess what: a bunch of people without guns - a bunch of pacifists - subdued him and held him.

The only shots fired in this act were by the depraved murderer walking into that church intent on bagging himself a few liberals.

If someone had been carrying a loaded pistol, Greg McKendry and Linda Kraeger would still be dead. More guns wouldn't have changed that outcome.

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Your right; more guns would

Submitted by Anonymous on Sun, 08/10/2008 - 09:17.

Your right; more guns would not have helped. Banning guns would not have helped either. If someone is intent on killing there are many other ways. He could have built a bomb really easily and killed even more people had he not had a gun. He could have hacked them up with a machete as well. Banning guns will not stop the killing. Public execution is the only way for these people to learn their will be consequences for their actions. Taking guns away from non-criminals will not help either. That would be like taking the fence down so the wolves can get at the sheep more easily.

Public execution is the only

Submitted by R. Neal on Sun, 08/10/2008 - 10:02.

Public execution is the only way for these people to learn their will be consequences for their actions.

That's exactly what the killer wanted. Unfortunately for him, his last wish was denied by a bunch of unarmed liberal pacifists.

Anonymous, the writer said

Submitted by Anonymous on Wed, 07/30/2008 - 01:29.

Anonymous, the writer said highest murder rate per capita in the developed world. Now the only countries above the US in your link are either third world or the developing world.The US comes in at no. 8 and the next developed country to make an appearance on your statistics is Germany all the way down at no 21. The United Kingdom doesn't even make the list.

When the Port Arthur massacre happened here (Australia)the nation was horrified since it was the first US style mass shooting of innocent bystanders to ever occur here and the Govt. did something about gun control. According to your link we have <10% of the gun homocides per capita in comparison to the US. Now I don't believe that Australia has less psychos per capita, do you? I think we'd probably have about the same share there, right? The main difference is a policy one and a cultural one. I think the writer has a point.

No guns equal no crime?

Submitted by Anonymous on Mon, 07/28/2008 - 18:44.

I'm sorry, but there is no historical data that would support banning guns to eliminate crime. Everywhere it's been tried, it fails.

What would be your logic that it would work? Sorry; You can't subjegate the constitution just for wishful thinking!

I'm sorry, but there is no

Submitted by Andy Axel on Mon, 07/28/2008 - 19:48.

I'm sorry, but there is no historical data that would support banning guns to eliminate crime. Everywhere it's been tried, it fails.

Well, the ubiquitous presence of guns throughout our society sure isn't working either. And I seriously doubt that you're sorry.

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sycophant whining

Submitted by Anonymous on Mon, 07/28/2008 - 19:53.

Just another liberal sycophant taking advantage of a madman to try to change the constitution.

Will you proggs ever learn? You are here only because America allowed citizens to bear arms. And because plenty of other Americans weren't liberals, when it really counted. Changing this country to what you want (to meet your own infantile needs) would be to destroy it.

Stop trying to change things just to suit your own naive expectations of pie-in-the-sky nirvana. Get a job, work, go to church, and for God's sake quit whining.

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Impossible

Submitted by Anonymous on Wed, 07/30/2008 - 16:29.

You are assuming that liberals would destroy the country, but considering you narrow-minded, sub-standard, morally corrupt conservatives have already destroyed it I suppose we will never know. Why do Republicans hate America?

Separation of church and guns

Submitted by Anonymous on Mon, 07/28/2008 - 21:49.

Well, I'm sure all of the folks who worship at Christ the Redeemer's Rod & Gun Club and Church of the Second Amendment would have just pulled out their own shotguns or legal concealed carry Glocks and wasted that perp. There might have been a little collateral damage, but that's okay, they'd all go to heaven or something like that.

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The Second Amendment

Submitted by Lenny on Thu, 07/31/2008 - 13:11.

Lenny Ladner

My response to Chris Lugo's gun grabbing blog entry.

The Purpose Of The Second Amendment

Question
Why was the Second Amendment put into the Constitution?
Answer
So that we could protect ourselves from the government!
Other measures to protect US from the government were:

1) The fedgov could have no army in peacetime.
2) Fedgov could not quarter troops in our houses
3) Fedgov could send troops into a state only with the consent of the state government or during an insurrection.
Question
Without an army how could the federal government defend the country against invasion and war?
Answer
By calling out the militia: Each state had an organized militia under the control of the state government (the officers were trained by the federal government).
Question
What was to prevent the state government from using the militia against its own citizens?
Answer
To regulate that is to control the militia the Founder’s said “Arm the entire population”
THAT is the Second Amendment.
In the “Federalist Papers” the founders asserted that the combined militias of the states would be stronger than any force the Federal Government could raise, and by the same reasoning an armed population would be stronger than any militia a State Government could use against its citizens.
The Second Amendment has nothing whatsoever to do with hunting, sportsmanship or target shooting:
The claim that it does has been made by people who want to exclude the ordinary citizens.
(Who are not hunters, sportsmen or target shooters) from the debate.
This allows those promoters to agree to a series of compromises which over time will disarm the people and leave US at the mercy of the government.

If you are a gun owner in America.
Vote for Leonard “ Lenny” Ladner for United States Senate.

Please visit me on the web at Link....

I would appreciate it if you could duplicate this message.

Mr. Lugo you have NO BUSINESS IN THIS RACE. YOU ARE NOT GOING TO UPHOLD YOUR OATH OF OFFICE. Suggestion MOVE TO ENGLAND.

While I understand the

Submitted by Anonymous on Thu, 07/31/2008 - 16:54.

While I understand the intention of the Second Amendment, I'm not sure the founding fathers anticipated a Federal Army, Navy and Air Force with the level of armaments of today. So ya'll seriously think armed private citizens could stand against Federal Forces? I think you're smoking something if you do...How many M1 tanks ya'll got? How many f15 fighter jets? Get a grip people...

Lenny Ladner I strongly

Submitted by Lenny on Sat, 08/09/2008 - 00:47.

Lenny Ladner

I strongly recommend that you read the article:

Link...

"What Good Can A Handgun Do Against An Army?"
by Mike Vanderboegh.

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public school

Submitted by Anonymous on Wed, 06/24/2009 - 11:02.

The public school shooting rampage phenomenon started here in the South only a decade ago when two students in Jonesboro,travesti Arkansas opened fire on their fellow middle school students killing five and wounding eleven. Since that time our nation has witnessed school shootings in over a dozen states with victims numbering in the hundreds.

This article is so

Submitted by Anonymous on Wed, 06/24/2009 - 11:33.

This article is so good!

Thanks zenhabits…

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