Without assuming [i]too[/i] much, [@Mistiel], you might have a point. Either way I found the CNN Town Hall a complete waste of time and nothing short of a setup playing off of tragedy. Deeply disrespectful to anyone who had other view points and little more than anti-firearm propaganda, especially in some of the ways the guests were treated or how those posing questions were not just allowed to say whatever they had to say, woe and weal alike, and the moderator step in. Everything I noted about it came off as a show and pandering, especially appeals to emotion.

Not to say those involved haven't a right to be emotional, there was great suffering at the hands of a despicable person, but I feel very little sympathy for their solution, especially when the near entirety of their grievances consist of emotion. No less not just that they are impractical and irrational, but moreover that they stand to take more from lawful citizens than they would be giving back. As unfortunate as it is to say, shootings as this do not merit a further massive infringement upon the rights of firearms owners or prospective ones; the Second Amendment already receives enough great and egregious trampling as it is.

Moving on, I cannot be realistically swayed by the proposals, which do not really address the core issues at hand either. We now know that everyone from the Federal Bureau of Investigation to the sheriffs to the school itself all miserably failed and that none of the protective measures put in place were acted on. What sense is there in inflicting more rules of the same vein when they already do not work? The most reasonable solution is approaching it from another angle, as the suggestions by the opposition have put forward.