The US is a very strange place. Guns are like wrist watches. Guns are linked to individual rights. It's in the constitution they say. Gun control means trashing individual rights.

Few state or federal politicians will use the latest mass slaughter at Virginia Tech by Cho Seung Huito to argue for more gun control to argue for gun control. There is even little pressure to renew the federal law banning the sale of assault rifles, which was recently allowed to lapse. What seems to be on the agenda is the gun lobby's for no free gun spaces---the solution to the mass slaughter at Virginia Tech is for the students to carry weapons at college!

Allan Moir

In order to ensure its election the Democratic Party's national platform commits it to uphold the Second Amendment — the right to keep and bear arms---and so it is no longer committed to about gun control. Right wing American nationalists will argue that guns are needed because foreigners everywhere, and next time it really will be a Muslim shooting up the native born white Americans in one of the universities!

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