Speak Out: Will Newtown Change Your Attitude Toward Guns?
Shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School has sparked broader debate over gun control and whether semi-automatic weapons should be banned.
The Sandy Hook shooting has opened a broader discussion over gun control and whether there should be tighter restrictions on semi-automatic weapons like the one used by shooter Adam Lanza. As Columbia Patch points out, citing an article from The Washington Post, current law bans fully automatic assault weapons, but semi-automatic assault weapons are legal, as well as high-capacity magazines. Since the shooting, Walmart stopped selling online the Bushmaster Patrolman's Carbine M4A3 Rifle, which is in the same family of firearms as the weapon Lanza used, The Huffington Post reports. Wheaton Patch is reporting that Dick's Sporting Goods has suspended the sale of "modern sporting rifles" at all of its stores. The shooting has sparked a …
In this Article:
Alex Josemaria
3:14 pm on Wednesday, January 9, 2013
Bob McDonnell is right that armed security is the only form of force protection that works, in tandem with passive physical security (buildings that are hard to get into). Both have huge downsides (schools looking like and acting more fortresses, at the minimum at their entrances.) Even when they look nice, buildings with adequate physical security are NOT inviting at all. (see the Department of … more ›