Retailers start to pull some rifles from shelves

If only Axes had been illegal Lizzie Borden's parents would not have been murdered.  If only Box cutters had been illegal the 911 hijackers would never had succeeded.  If only Ammonium Nitrate had been illegal Timothy McVeigh would not have killed anyone. 

While I personally don't see the need for anyone to own an assault rifle capable of shooting 30 rounds of ammo I am also not naive enough to believe that banning these, or all, guns would stop mass murderers.  We need to get some stones as a country and examine ALL the issues that lead to this behavior.  Violent video games/movies that are obsessively played/watched.  Lack of parental control or discipline.  Moral relativism being the mantra taught in our schools.  Over medication of our youth for questionable disorders.....etc., etc , etc.

Both sides need to get off their soap boxes; this country needs to have a serious discussion about this issue. We have more of a societal problem, we need to talk about the way America handles mental illness, the over prescription of ADHD, ADD, and other drugs, and the long term effects on young children, entertainment, movies, video games, news media, the containing decay of the moral fabric of our culture, the list goes on. We need took take a deep look at the direction of our county, not a simple shallow argument about guns. Take away guns and bad people will adapt, doesn’t matter if they use box cutters, or fertilizer bombs they will find another way to hurt and kill. Also some guns and ammo capacities are ridiculous and are not needed in society.Pandora is out of the box, there are too many guns already out there for the government which is broke to do a buyback program. There are too many people fearful about the future direction our society and country is headed in to voluntarily give up their weapons. There will always be people on the far right and left fringes that delude themselves and refuse to listen to reason. Time to toughen up America; what we are doing obviously isn’t working.    

NOT REALLY SURE there is a "compelling argument for gun control."...??

But I do believe there is one for "gun safety."....It should just be a given..

We have guns in our family for Generations....No serious accidents or threats...

And we have never been a threat to our neighbors, none of them to us either; Most all of them have guns also...I feel comfortable with that as long I know they are responsible.

We have about every type gun or have had, except Assault type weapons or Machine guns, I have fired many of them in the past....I personally don't believe Police should have them either.

Our children and grandchildren have had gun safety training and or been in the Military, many in our extended family also..

Some have been in Law enforcement...

I could make the "old stale statement" of guns kill/people kill.....But like I've said many times before it's about people and safety....And really not about weapons.