I would say they are pro second amendment however the numbers speak for themselves and can be backed up by other sources.
CDC, Task Force on Community Preventive Services, “First Reports Evaluating the Effectiveness of
Strategies for Preventing Violence: Firearms Laws”, Oct 3, 2003 – a systematic review of 51 studies that
evaluated the effects of selected firearms laws on violence -The U.S. government “found insufficient evidence to determine the effectiveness
of any of the firearms laws or combinations of laws reviewed on violent outcomes.”
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That's the CDC too boot
Automatics are for all intents & purposes ' illegal ' you can buy them albeit they are cost prohibitive for anyone except the wealthy you also need a $200 ATF tax stamp and their permission to go to your home and make sure it's there and as is, along with a class 3 license . And the guns all use at Sandy Hook were semi-automatic. And a total ban on all semiautomatics wouldn't have prevented this nothing will because of the sheer randomness of these types of attacks
As our friends, my wife and I discussed last night, the focus should not be on gun control because that is not the problem when it comes to horrific events like the one at Sandy Hook Elementary School. What we should be discussing is how to repair our broken mental health care system. The young man who shot all those people was mentally ill....we should not ignore this. Apparently, his mother was trying to get him help, including setting up the possibility of having him institutionalized if necessary. Getting help for a mentally ill adult is nearly impossible under current laws. The patient has to agree to treatment or commitment. More often than not, they are off their meds and feel as if there is nothing wrong with them, so they refuse treatment. It isn't until they go off the deep end and commit a crime that the law steps in. By then, it is often too late, as it was for all those innocent victims and the shooter at Sandy Hook.
A former acquaintance of ours had an adult son who suffered from paranoid schizophrenia. Her son was living at home. He was off his meds and as his condition worsened she was attempting to get him into an in treatment facility for some time without any success. He certainly had no intention of committing himself. One evening the mother was sitting at the kitchen table. Her son went into the other room and then returned with a rifle and shot her in the back of the head. He's institutionalized now and his mother is dead. This is a result which might have been avoided if it had been possible for the mother to get her son the help he needed in time.
As with the Sandy Hook massacre, the gun didn't shoot itself. If there were no such thing as a gun, the mother in the situation above could have been stabbed or beat to death by her son. Clearly, the main problem wasn't the gun. Likewise the main concern with what happened at Sandy Hook should be how to attempt to prevent such things happening in the future. However in this case, a semi-automatic weapon facilitated the shooters success at taking out 20 children and 7 adults. Without that semi-automatic weapon the carnage would have been almost nil by comparison. Still, we should not forget that the young man who committed this horrendous act had severe mental issues. It is possible that had his mother been successful at getting him the help he needed, those 27 people would still be alive today.