[photo courtesy of the FBI National Offense Data website]
The Conneticut evil gunman's mother owned the guns that were legally registered in her name and who he murdered first by shooting her in the face before this mentally disturbed person went to massacre the students she taught and she was very close to. We need to address and discuss his mental health issues that led him to commit this evil act.
ABC news reported: Ryan Lanza, 24, brother of gunman Adam Lanza, 20, tells authorities that his younger brother is autistic, or has Asperger syndrome and a “personality disorder.”
More Americans are killed by car accidents and hit and runs than legally registered gun violence/mass killings annually. Are we going to ban cars too?
NCSA Traffic Safety Fact Sheet 2010 “Alcohol-Impaired Driving”: 10,228 persons were killed in America by drunk automobile drivers in 1 year. [source: National Highway Traffic Safety Administration]
Car Crash Fatality Statistics: 32,885 Americans were killed by car crashes in 2010. [Source: National Highway Traffic Safety Administration]
Street gangs across America who commit heinous crimes and terrorize their neighborhoods daily, DO NOT OWN "LEGALLY" REGISTERED GUNS.
In 2011, an estimated 1,203,564 violent crimes occurred nationwide. In 2011, an estimated 14,612 persons were murdered in the United States. [source: FBI violent crime/murder]
Gangs are responsible for an average of 48 percent of violent crime in most jurisdictions and up to 90 percent in several others, according to NGIC analysis. Major cities and suburban areas experience the most gang-related violence. Local neighborhood-based gangs and drug crews continue to pose the most significant criminal threat in most communities. [source: FBI: 2011 National Gang Threat Assessment]
Even if we were to ban guns or restrict law abiding Americans from possessing them legally, that would not stop an evil person from going on a killing spree and murdering innocent people. Just take a good look at China, they have restricted private citizens from owning guns legally and evil people have used alternative weapons to commit their heinous crimes.
Gun ownership in the People's Republic of China is heavily regulated by law. Generally, private citizens are not allowed to possess guns.
[source: CBS news 12/14/12] BEIJING A man wielding a knife attacked students Friday at a school in central China, leaving 22 children and one adult injured, according to state-run media reports.
The attack marks the latest in a series of violent assaults at elementary schools in China. In 2010, a total of 18 children were killed in four separate attacks. On March 23 of that year, Zheng Minsheng attacked children at an elementary school in Fujian Province, killing eight.
One month later, just a few hours after Zheng Minsheng was executed for his crime, another man, Chen Kanbing wounded 16 students and a teacher in a knife attack at another primary school in Fujian. The following month, on May 12, a man named Wu Huangming killed seven children and two adults with a meat cleaver at a kindergarten in Shaanxi Province. That attack was followed by an August 4 assault by Fang Jiantang, who killed three children and one teacher with a knife at a kindergarten in Shandong Province.
In 2011, a young girl and three adults were killed with an axe at an elementary school in Henan Province by a 30-year-old man named Wang Hongbin, and eight children were hurt in Shanghai after an employee at a child care center attacked them with a box cutter.
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Yahoo news
written by By Olivier Knox
Friday December 14, 2012
A petition calling on President Barack Obama to push for new gun control laws in the aftermath of the mass shooting at an elementary school in Newtown, Conn., has cleared the 25,000-signature threshold required to obtain a formal White House response.
The measure, filed in response to Friday's massacre, urges Obama to "immediately address the issue of gun control through the introduction of legislation in Congress."
"The goal of this petition is to force the Obama Administration to produce legislation that limits access to guns," it says. "While a national dialogue is critical, laws are the only means in which we can reduce the number of people murdered in gun related deaths."
Obama vowed on Friday to "take meaningful action, regardless of the politics," to prevent future tragedies like the shooting massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School.
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