Sadly all the grandstanding is off the mark as usual. The 2nd Amendment is part of our way of life and guns are not the problem. It is the people who use guns in wrong ways and banning guns only means the bad guys will have the guns and the lawful citizen will be an easier target for them. Most criminals are cowards and they prey on the weak, the sick, the elderly and the unprotected. I do not own a gun but I am giving serious thought to getting one BECAUSE of what the politicians are trying to do. They chip, chip away at our legal rights and next thing you know the rights are gone. Not one of the proposals from the president would have stopped the sad evnts in Newtown nor would they have stopped any of the other senseless mass killings. They are merely ways to remove our rights as citizens.