Originally Posted by Steve Rupe

People live and people die and they do so from a multitude of needless reasons/causes. It is a heartless fact of life itself, people cannot be protected from every needless death or madmen. Also it is an on going effort to make guns safer to own and improvements are put on the market each and every year. I do not approve of people dying needlessly and I agree that across the counter sales of guns or weapons in general should be improved upon as much as possible, but it is not possible at this point in time to see into the hearts/minds of people to see what they should be allowed to own or not own a gun or any device that can be used to intentionally cause the death of another.

A relatively small percentage of deaths are lost each year in America by intent and right now the biggest loss by intent is via a gun. If the guns could be done away with and no one any longer owned a gun in the U.S., which will never be the case, then there would be another weapon of choice and etc. Surely you do not think that needless deaths can ever be prevented.