Don't get me wrong, I honestly don't see a need for automatic weapons. But to say there is zero need for anyone to have handguns, I fully disagree with. I am a disabled woman. Asking me to trust in my ability to handle a shot gun to protect myself with it is the same as just telling me to go ahead and commit suicide because rest assured, if the gun didn't kill me when it knocked me into the wall, you can bet the bad guy I was aiming at will do the job while I am laying unconscious on the ground.

I got my first gun at 8 years old and was never allowed to touch it without daddy being there till after I was 15. I am now 60. That is 52 years that my gun never disobeyed me and shot a single person. It was trained exactly like I was to respect it. Did I have to pull it a few times in my life. Yes, it saved me from rape/murder (whatever they had in mind) on 3 different occasions. Yet, it has never been fired except on practice ranges.

Have you ever heard of Kennesaw Georgia? I live less than 50 miles from there. Back 30 some odd years ago, they passed a law that every head of household had to own a firearm. I thought they were crazy. But a strange thing happened. Violent crime basically disappeared. Last I heard there had not been a murder there for a very long time.

I find it so hard to believe that no one saw the guy in Florida had some major problems. But from what I am hearing, it sounds like a lot of people didn't want to get involved and let this guy slip through everyone's radar. We need to stop blaming the guns and start blaming the breakdown in the system that should have seen something coming.