Gun Laws

Well, as the stories that are coming out now are stories of what was lost, one of the more common things for people to think of is "How can we prevent this?" Our work mailing list is up to about 150 posts, in what started out as someone complaining about guns. It has obviously veered off a bit, but the debate about gun controls is definitely still very alive (especially here in the States, where many people cling to their 2nd amendment rights).

Luckily, I haven't seen too many large press stories of people trying to make some political gain from this story. And hopefully we will keep it that way, since there really isn't much that can be said. I've heard arguments from people on both sides of the fence: some say that we should take this as a sign to go further to ban guns; some as a sign that we need to loosen legislation, since at least then if this crazy guy started shooting, maybe someone would have been able to shoot back before he got to his 30 victims.

But for me, I hope no political party tries to go to those cheap political points, since they're both mostly useless in this case. Sure, I'll support tough gun control rules, but you really can't stop these type of situations with those rules. These type of incidents are rare, and will still happen no matter what rules are in place. We do need to find ways to stop this sort of act from occurring again, but the solution to that doesn't have to deal with gun laws.