In response to:
Tweeter says: Arming people to prevent gun violence is like f***ing for virginity.
...and that pretty much sums it up.
In his weekly address to the nation, President Obama said that, “we have to come together and take meaningful action to prevent more tragedies like this. Regardless of the politics.” He said that, “we have endured far too many of these tragedies in the last few years,” and pointed to the massacre in Connecticut yesterday as the latest in a number of recent incidents. So what does he mean by ‘meaningful action’? More gun control, of course.
Yesterday, a Democratic lawmaker was even more forthright:
Rep. Jerrold Nadler, who represents portions of New York City,...
Thomas Jefferson: "Laws that forbid the carrying of arms...disarm only those who are neither inclined or determined to commit crimes. Such laws only make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assassins; they serve to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man." (1764 Letter and speech from T. Jefferson quoting with approval an essay by Cesare Beccari)