Did you know or do you care: Connecticut already has an "assault weapons" ban? And, the young shooter tried to purchase a pistol in the days leading up to the killings but had to wait for State approval? (updated for content)

Contrary to the verbal garbage coming from the Left,  we all desperately want to solve the “Sandy Hook problem.”   Understand this:  there are millions of gun owners who are wishing that they could have been in the school.  Those on the Left,  most of them well meaning,  which for laws that would actually change human conduct and are convinced that we should continue passing restrictive laws in that hope. 

But we weren’t there,  and such laws already exist in Connecticut. 

The shooter in Aurora, Colorado,  picked the one theater of the seven,  in that city,  that had  signs reading,  “No concealed weapons allowed.”  Turns out that a “zero gun zone”  may have contributed to the shooter’s decision to commit his crimes in that particular theater.  

Laugh if you will,  but there is such a thing as “evil.”  Of course,  evil does not “just happen,”  but,  then again,  often,  it gives us little notice.    And it is seemingly everywhere.  

If we cannot legislate the end to spousal abuse,  why would we think we could regulate into existence,  the absence of murder?  

Sometimes,  all  we can do is change our environment and protect yourselves. 

Maybe THAT should be the primary lesson learned from the incident at Sandy Hook.  

To date,  we have blamed God,  the shooter's mother, the tea-party, racism (go figure), lax gun laws, guns rather than those who use them, FoxNews,  video games,  the Left's penchant for a moral-free school system (you know,  the evil outcome of religious thought, wholesome moral conduct),  mental illness,  cumbersome mental illness laws (as in "red tape"),  rich white people,  an accepted gun culture,  an accepted culture of violence  (Hollywood and all that bit of hypocrisy),  lack of leadership coming out of Washington,  the lack of visible law enforcement on campus,  unarmed teachers,  a school district's cost for increased protection  . . . .   and the list goes on.  

Embedded in this list,  are several considerations that need attention,  but an immediate fail safe solution cannot be found in any of the list's suggestions. 

Let's have this discussion and allow for a correction to our individual biases, but,  for the sake of all concerned,  let's stop blaming each other or the principles upon which this great nation was built.