Here's what one idiot sent to the local paper:

I do not own any guns — particularly any of the so-called "assault" weapons — but I am so angry over the media's continuous attention to the premise that the particular type of firearm used in the tragic Newtown shootings is the root of the problem.
It is not the type of weapon used, but the fact that a deranged person was able to get a weapon with ammunition and use it. What arguments would you be hearing today on TV or the radio if the shooter had used a commonly found pump-action shotgun and a common handgun? He may have killed a few less children, but would that tragedy be any less a tragedy if only 15 children had been brutally murdered?"

"but would that tragedy be any less a tragedy if only 15 children had been brutally murdered?"


Well in a word - Yes.

Guns are tools. Saws cut boards in half. Hammers pound nails into boards. The weapons used that day are designed for only one thing. To kill a large amount of people in a short time. And tragically - that Friday they worked very well indeed.