Originally Posted By DlandDug >>...but the rush to tighten gun controls needs to be thought thru - not knee jerk so that anything enacted would actually help.<< The efforts to manage gun ownership in this country didn't suddenly occur to most of us after last week's tragedy. There is no "knee jerk" involved in the massive amount of time and labor that has been expended over many years trying to make sure that gun use is reduced in this country. The knee jerk has been consistent in the gun lobby, which immediately claims that any efforts to curb gun ownership is nothing more than the first step to total confiscation.
Originally Posted By RoadTrip <<Spurred on by an apparent dispute between two groups of young people, a teenager leaned inside a Metro Transit bus in downtown St. Paul early Sunday and fatally shot a 16-year-old boy in the chest, police said. Family members identified the victim late Sunday as Earl Freeman of St. Paul. The shooting was the third violent attack on a bus to end in death or serious injury since early March.>> <a href="http://www.startribune.com/467/story/1136728.html" target="_blank">http://www.startribune.com/467 /story/1136728.html</a>
