Your Say: Nation again debates firearms

Our followers on Twitter shared thoughts in the aftermath of the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut. Comments are edited for clarity and grammar:

My heart breaks for those families! Something needs to be done — too much gun violence!

-- @loveanimals1967

Truly devastated. The sad thing is, it won't take long before people cry, "Don't take my guns."

-- @Alloverthemap10

Expect feel-good legislation and not much on the hard, costly work of treating mental illness and incarcerating criminals for longer periods.

-- @patsyofthesouth

What have we learned since Columbine? The same thing we always learn: nothing.

-- @Sanfangas

Is now the right time for gun-control debate? If not now, when?

-- @Soyndoff

No, that debate can wait. Let's pray for the families who lost their loved ones.

-- @mnoormo1

Definitely yes! How many more innocent people need to die or be left disabled because of inadequate gun control ?

-- @carlosjime

No, I should not be penalized for the actions of a few sick and twisted people. Criminals will do what they want regardless.

-- @richhess

There should be regulation about how weapons should be kept in the house — for example, locked up and secure.

-- @EmmaReisen

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