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Readers: Guns Are Not the Issue, It’s the People

Some Patch readers say concealed carry laws work to stop crimes. Other readers disagree.

Following the Atlanta school shooting on Jan. 31, where a student opened fire at Price Middle School, shooting a 14-year-old in the neck before armed officer at the school stopped the shooter, Patch asked readers Do you believe Obama’s gun proposal will help prevent school shootings?  Patch received more than 10 comments; here are some of the responses, which have been edited for length, grammar and clarity.  “Hard to say guns are the issue, seems who is in possession of the gun is the issue,” Patch reader b garrett wrote.  Some readers say a strong defense is vital to stopping shooting sprees.  “If all civilians were licensed to carry guns, it would make for a very polite society,” Patch reader Harry Gio wrote. “These ‘shooting spree’ …

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Poll: Should Armed Guards Be In Every School?

The NRA reacted to the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting by suggesting a variety of causes for mass shootings and suggesting that armed police officers be station in every school.

The NRA called for a surge of gun-carrying "good guys" around U.S. schools Friday in the group's first public statement since the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting. NRA Executive Vice President Wayne LaPierre called for a new kind of American domestic security revolving around armed civilians, arguing that "the only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun." A gunman killed 26 people at Sandy Hook Elementary in Newtown, Conneticut on Dec. 14. Twenty of the victims were children. The shooting has ignited a debate over gun control. Vice President Joe Biden will lead the Obama administrations efforts on the issue, CNN reported. The NRA, however, argued that more guns, not less, is the answer to mass shootings. "We …

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Willie Wilmette

9:06 am on Wednesday, January 23, 2013

They should stop listening to Democrat Barbara Boxer. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ked1FoePpSY   more ›