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There are already strong gun control in CT. It didn't stop this, as gun control laws have not stopped other mass murders such as this. More laws banning guns will not stop more shootings.
We have laws against drug use, and people still use drugs. We have laws against murder, and murder still occurs. Studying and understanding why these events happen needs to be taken seriously. Studying what has deterred/stopped these events need to lead us to a solution.
As complete gun confiscation in this country will never be accepted in this country, and will still not reduce murders, the solution must be found in the changing the culture. Until then it is up to us to take action ourselves. Cops do their best, and everything they can, but unfortunately when seconds count they are minutes away.
Here is some research I found from someone who looked at 29 of these types of shootings going back more than 50 years. He looked at the difference between when law enforcement stopped the killer or when citizens did, and how many died before action was taken.
"With 15 incidents stopped by police with a total of 217 dead that’s an average of about 14.29. With 17 incidents stopped by civilians and 45 dead that’s an average of 2.33.
"The first point I want to draw your attention to is that roughly half of shooting rampages end in suicide anyway. What that means is that police are not ever in a position to stop most of them. Only the civilians present at the time of the shooting have any opportunity to stop those shooters. That’s probably more important than the statistic itself. In a shooting rampage, counting on the police to intervene at all is a coin flip at best.
"Second, within the civilian category 11 of the 17 shootings were stopped by unarmed civilians. What’s amazing about that is that whether armed or not, when a civilian plays hero it seems to save a lot of lives. The courthouse shooting in Tyler, Texas was the only incident where the heroic civilian was killed. In that incident the hero was armed with a handgun and the villain was armed with a rifle and body armor. If you compare the average of people killed in shootings stopped by armed civilians and unarmed civilians you get 1.8 and 2.6 but that’s not nearly as significant as the difference between a proactive civilian, and a cowering civilian who waits for police.
"So, given that far less people die in rampage shootings stopped by a proactive civilian, only civilians have any opportunity to stop rampage shootings in roughly half of incidents, and armed civilians do better on average than unarmed civilians, wouldn’t you want those heroic individuals who risk their lives to save others to have every tool available at their disposal?"
http://dailyanarchist.com/2012/07/31/auditing-shooting-rampage-statistics/
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Yes.
