Gun Control

It is time for this country to re-evalaute gun laws and create real, effective control laws. The recent shooting in Colorado showed all of us the dangers that come from the "right" to own a gun.

When the constitution was originally written, guns did not have the ability to mass murder people like automatic weapons do today. The framers of the constitution clearly did not intend for citizens to be able to massacre other citizens because they created laws against murder and said that we were all guaranteed the right to "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness". 

Proponents of gun rights say that they are mostly used for hunting and self defense. The hunting argument can be true for some guns, but nobody hunts with an assault rifle or a handgun. As for the self defense argument, you would not need guns if other people did not have them.

If there could be two worlds, one with guns and the other without them, most sane, nonviolent Americans would choose the world without them. Tighter gun control is desperately needed in this country and the Democrats need to get over their re-election fears and address this issue.