PricklyPete said:
pauliemitch said:
MASS SHOOTINGS
An 'Assault Weapon' Ban Won't Stop Mass Shootings
Congress can't "stop the killing...by changing the law
Got it...so let's do absolutely nothing and let it continue...derp. What's the one common denominator in nearly all of these shootings? No, it won't prevent all of the killing but it certainly would be a step in the right direction. What's the harm in banning something like this? Thomas Jefferson said it best...
"I am not an advocate for frequent changes in laws and constitutions, but laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of the human mind. As that becomes more developed, more enlightened, as new discoveries are made, new truths discovered and manners and opinions change, with the change of circumstances, institutions must advance also to keep pace with the times. We might as well require a man to wear still the coat which fitted him when a boy as a civilized society to remain ever under the regimen of their barbarous ancestors."
EXACTLY!!!