Outlawing automatic and semi-automatic weapons won't instantly solve the problem but it will be a good starting point and work in the long run.

Confiscate 10 of these assault type weapons and 9 might be found to take their place. Continued arrest and remove will continue to reduce the number available. Eventually most will be taken off the street.

When the 2nd Amendment was passed guns needed to be manually reloaded after each shot. Permitting ownership of this type of weapon should be permitted, but no weapon that loads and fires automatically should continue to be made available.

All of the alternatives posted - mental checks, drug testing, licensing tests - avoid the issue. Someone may be fully insane but but if a dangerous gun isn't available they can't fire a missing gun.

http://www.demandaplan.org/SandyHook

Bob Kastigar
IBEW Local 1220, Chicago

automatic and semi-automatic weapons been banned for years in Chicago and it never solved anything. Criminals walk onto the trains pull out guns and order men, women and children to the floor, they have no fear.

When the second Amendment was written the Founding Fathers would have loved for people to have semi autos and full autos, they sure would have made beating the red coats a lot easier.

Guns have been manufactured for centuries and criminals have gotten smarter, it is not unreasonable to think that criminals will manufacture their own guns in their garage.

Unions are a big problem and the reason so much industry in the United States have collapsed. Union workers are the most lazy, greedy, self serving type of people in existence. That is why it is so imperative we vote against any union backed government official.