For people who agree with banning assault weapons?

The theory is, without an assault weapon, the nutter couldn't have shot so many people in the school. This theory overlooks a LOT of facts. 1) The weapon used was not an assault weapon.

Assault weapons are either burst or fully automatic weapons (that is, one pull of the trigger sends three or more rounds downrange). The weapon used at Sandy Hook was a military-style semi-automatic rifle (one pull of the trigger, one round goes downrange). Why would a civillian need a military-style rifle?

The military has invested BILLIONS of dollars making a weapon that is easy to use, reliable, and comfortable to fire; not to mention that many gun owners learned to shoot in the military and want a gun that is familiar. As far as lethality goes, a WWII era M-1 Garand semi-automatic rifle is MUCH more lethal than an AR-15, and the Garand is NOT affected by any assault weapon ban so far. The 5.56x45 NATO round, when used for hunting, is only rated for small game - nothing bigger than small deer or medium-large dog size.

For hunting larger deer, or other targets around human mass, you would use the 7.62x51 NATO or 30-06 (7.62x63) round, because shooting a large deer with a 5.56 would likely only wound instead of kill. 2) The shooter not only had the AR-15, he also had two 9mm pistols and plenty of ammo for them. Had he not had the AR-15, he could have done just as much damage with the pistols.

Between the two of them, he had between 20 and 30 rounds in the magazine for them, plus whatever reloads he had. 3) Assault weapons - indeed, ALL guns - were already banned from the school. Notice how much he cared about that.

4) Even if his mother hadn't had ANY guns at all, if he'd wanted to shoot up the school he could have gone down to the local crack dealer. The crack dealer could have referred him to a 'black market' arms dealer who then could very well have set the nutter up with a GENUINE assault weapon - probably an old AK-47, with the 7.65x39 round. And THAT weapon can empty a 30-round clip in one pull of the trigger.

In other words, an assault weapon ban wouldn't have done diddly-squat to prevent that psycho from committing his crime. But an armed teacher very well might have.

There already was an assault weapons ban in Connecticut prior to the Sandy Hook incident. Didn't seem to do much good. Facts don't stop liberals from pushing false information at people.

I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.