User blog comment:FanOfStuff/Shooting/@comment-1844926-20121215045021/@comment-1874924-20121215061058

The overriding fallacy of pushing gun control as a crime prevention measure is that it presumes that criminals will be the first group disarmed, when in practice they will be the last. After all, the defining feature of criminals is that they break laws, and organized crime always stands ready to cater to any illicit demand; yet gun control laws are based on the assumption that criminals will obey the law.

One of the most hateful and malicious tactics in the gun control lobby's bag of dirty tricks is to exploit emotional reaction to a tragedy to push laws that they know would not have prevented that tragedy. Gun control laws in Connecticut are already stricter than in most other States.