Previous Post Again, something so tragic raises the issue of gun laws. This doesn't happen anywhere else in the world. Basically 17 people are dead, because of a cowardly, no hoper Nikolas Cruz. I understand that some people have a romanticised version that they are John Wayne and could outshoot a rogue gunman. The answer is limit gun laws surely? Why do you need automatic, military grade weapons? I just don't get it, I just now a lot of parents and siblings will go on without their children.

I strongly believe in the right to bear arms (and arm bears)... BUT!

I don't think anyone should be able to acquire assault/military style weapons. I think the only weapons that should be available to the average person are handguns, shotguns, and single-shot rifles.

And I don't think anyone should be able to stockpile weapons. Each person only gets to have 2 of each of the above.

I live in a town that some people have called the murder capital of the world (New Orleans), and I often walk around at night, but I've never in 50+ years felt any need to buy a gun. And I purposely don't buy a gun for my own and my family's protection.

We had Mardi Gras the other day, and we couldn't get through it without some shooting incidents near the parades... and one guy is dead from it.