You can't buy Morality with Liberty

Violence in Connecticut schools is again making headlines.
In the wake of the horrific tragedy in Sandy Hook, lawmakers rushed to enact sweeping legislation designed to prevent such a calamity from ever happening again.

That legislation was powerless to prevent the two latest attacks in Milford and Hartford. The weapon of choice for both assailants was not a firearm but a knife.
I'm waiting for the first knife control bill.

In their overall purpose and mission, neither guns nor knives have really changed since their invention. Both can be used as either tools for hunting and recreation or weapons for killing. It all depends on the user.

People, particularly those who live throughout the several states of this nation, have changed.
We have reached a point where more and more of our young people believe that killing other people is an acceptable reaction if they are angry enough.

The inescapable truth is this: People, not products, kill people.

At some point we must face the reality that American society is reaping the whirlwind sown by our decent into moral relativism. If everything is okay as long as it makes you happy, you're liable to do anything.
You can't legislate morality, you have to learn it.

Giving up our liberties won't enforce moral behavior among citizens. It is indeed, morality and virtue that allow a free society to exist.  

Benjamin Franklin, Signer of the Declaration of Independence "[O]nly a virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations become corrupt and vicious, they have more need of masters."