odds that not only is the shooter able to age posthumously but he also has multiple personalities, some of which survived and are actively posting on his twitter account?

I note here that the United States does not have any federal restriction on AR-15 rifles (though there are complicated restrictions on various grips, receivers, etc.), which when introduced were designed for the U.S. Armed Forces in the 60s. For those with little to no gun knowledge, you know of this as, essentially, the famous M-16.

But to have a chance at stoping them, most (if not all) people would have to be armed at all times, everywhere they go.

Well the cops are in the schools, The common shooting seems to be school shootings so that would help. As in malls or other places, I really don't have an answer. I would prefer that I didn't need to have a gun with me 24/7 but I am sure some people would propose that as a solution.

I'm just saying, if people want to commit mass murders, there are other populated areas, y'know what I mean? If you stop them one place, perhaps they go somewhere else?

I could just envision my fragile old kindergarten teacher packing a handgun.

We treat each other like dirt in America. Gun control or not, we're the most desensitized country in the world.

Also, the reduced spending on mental health issues. Heal the sick, please.

Placing a cop in a school doesn't necessarily stop this - the shooter killed himself, so dying wasn't really a deterrent. And if the shooter was the son of a teacher, he likely would have been let in anyways.

um no. they are very different rifles. notably the m-16 is capable of fully automatic fire.

standard ar-15 is illegal in Connecticut.

"I don't know why my folks didn't show up today, and no, this isn't blood splattered on my shirt, uh.. I was making kool-aid at home, for the kids. That I forgot to bring. Now please let me go see them."

Fly,

It was probably something like this, he was just standing there not walking.

Not to mention that a cop with a pistol isn't going to fare too well in a gunfight against someone with an AR-15 and a vest.

I didn't the read the articles just saw the news story, did he murder a classroom? or did he run around the school. The cop could act as damage control if anything and keep the shooting from going from say 1 classroom to multiple.

http://www.jewelskousen.com/2012/04/...questionnaire/

Check out the candidate questioniarre for the NRA. Note questions 9, 10, 11, and 14.

Definitely check out question #13.

Bonus: Given that this is in Utah, feel free to google Mrs. Skousen's last name!

Edit: Here is a scan of a different NRA survey but with no marks. Just as much, if not more, wingnuttery, though!
http://www.tampabay.com/specials/201...stionnaire.pdf

Also we need to consider the kind of cop that would be placed in every school. It's going to be a retired cop who is going to be complacent at times.

I think a classroom + a principal and maybe 1-2 others. True, a cop can keep from escalating, but wouldn't have completely prevented. On the other side of it, wait for the budget battles when each town needs to hire 2-5 more full-time police officers to staff elementary schools.

Yes, people kill people. Guns just make it incredibly easy and efficient for someone to do so.

"if you combine the populations of Great Britain, France, Germany, Japan, Switzerland, Sweden, Denmark and Australia, you'll get a population roughly the size of the United States. We had 32,000 gun deaths last year, they had 112. Do you think it's because Americans are more homicidal by nature? Or do you think it's because those guys have gun control laws?" - Aaron Sorkin.

By the way, I'd like a gun nut to try to still defend the second amendment for me.

Fox news coverage is like unironically vastly superior to CNN right now.

Michigan Legislature tries to defend their guns in school bill, goes full Tsao:

https://www.facebook.com/MichiganHou...51291648029556

I don't think putting armed cops in schools helps much at all. First off, they'll be a bored security guard 99.99999% of the time and not ready or prepared for this kind of thing. In a more open area like a mall it would likely reduce casualties, but at the same time drastically increase the chance of innocent people hurt in crossfire. There was the shooting at the college in the past year where the shooter went into the class, barred the doors and started shooting. I think the movie theatre one was the same. You'd do the same in a school. If the shooter has no intention of living it's a tragedy that is very, very hard to stop no matter how hard the "more guns would have stopped this" people want you to believe.

Biesterfield hit the nail on the head, er, bullseye.

"no federal law" means precisely what it says; Connecticut's laws are not federal laws, obviously

Also wrong re: M16, the AR-15 was designated M16 by the military when introduced. If the commercial model used here - no idea how we know which iteration was used - was only semi-automatic, you're technically right because this would have been a semi-automatic rather than fully-automatic design, but if we want to split hairs the receiver is identical - in fact most of the weapon is identical - and can easily be converted to fully automatic for minimal expense. For that matter you can convert caliber, etc., with the same receiver very easily.

EDIT: Point being, this is an M16 that in its commercial legal availability is not fully automatic. Better now? Pretty irrelevant point.

How dare they rely on "statistics" to make decisions!

First off the vest thing might be over blown again. They call a fishing vest body armor. LAPD didn't lose anyone against two guys with legit fully automatic ak47s.

Against a guy with training you have a good point, a lot of these shooters with ars couldn't even handle clearing a jam.

David Dayen ‏@ddayen I don't know what the response should be to the #CTshooting, but I know that frontiersmen who lived 230 years ago should determine it