http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/15/nyregion/shooting-reported-at-connecticut-elementary-school.html?hp&_r=0

There has been another shooting at a Connecticut Elementary school.

It happened in Newton Connecticut, at the elementary school, and the shoot has been identified as 24-year-old Ryan Lanza. The death toll, say officials, is close to 30.

It seems like every few weeks there is a new horrific gun crime that happens in America. A mostly American phenomena, school shootings, are still happening despite the efforts of victims families and concerned citizens, and members of congress want to lower gun restrictions? And making them more strict is straight up out of the question. It reported that more than a 100 rounds were fired. This was no handgun, this was at least a semi-automatic firearm. That kind of power is unnecessary for even hunting or sport, and has one basic purpose: mass killing. That is what these guns were designed for, to kill as many enemies as quickly as possible, and that kind of power does not need to be in the hands of untrained civilians.

The old right to bear arms argument arises when ever this is brought up, that it is our "constitutional right" to own and carry firearms, but what people fail to realize is that the meaning of that simple statement has changed drastically over the years. If we go by the intent of the founders, then it simply means that every citizen has the right to form a militia, and not carry around the biggest cannon they can find.

I am not advocating that we take away peoples guns, but I do think that we need to at least have a better system in place to restrict who gets guns and possibly restrict what kind of guns can be owned by the general populace. Who really needs to own a RPG? The short answer, really, is the army, and that's about it.