as a startling wake up call to become more active and stop accepting that nothing can be done to combat the NRA and other gun lobbyists. It's made me aware that there are many more people who support changing the current gun laws than I would have imagined. Time for us to join together and make our voices heard over the NRA bullshit.

Now I just want them fucking gone from this country. Outright ban on all of them. Only allowing display pieces that are impossible to fire.

who were killed earlier this year. Now a foiled threat in Indiana. Something seriously needs to change.

Gun control proposals with any actual capacity to make things like this darned near impossible (or at least really, really hard) are impractical to the point of absurdity. A full-scale ban and active confiscation (which is basically what it would take) are simply not going to occur. The controls I do advocate, reasonable steps to reduce criminal gun violence (licensing, gun security mandates, extending background checks to private sales, etc.), aren't really useful for dealing with spree killers...so this event didn't change my support of such measures in any way.

Before, it wasn't something I was adamant about because (1) I felt there were bigger priorities and (2) I felt that this was one area that most politicians were afraid to dare talk about, therefore nothing would ever get done about it anyway.

After this incident, I've gone from being simply indifferent about guns to being anti-gun. Something needs to change. This fascination with guns culture that we have in America is only doing us harm. Time to do something about it.

Something like this was bound to happen.

I don't know if our laws can be strengthened, but I hope many Americans are realizing that there are just too many guns out there.

Maybe we have a "gun fad" in this country. This seemed like an ordinary mom in a very exclusive neighborhood. Maybe this will wake people up.

I am also hoping that the families will bring civil action, at the very least against Ms. Lanza's estate. Maybe if rich people realize that guns are a liability they won't be as popular?

However, I generally kept my mouth shut ... erroneously believing it was a no win proposition.

I now believe my silence has added to the horrible problem we have.

This and all of the carnage leading up to it has forced me to confront my own complicity and do something about.

Well.........now that's changed.

If gun nuts don't like restrictions, then gun nuts can stop murdering.