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I'd like to clear up a miscommunication, when I said military I didn't mean the power structure, I meant the majority of the servicemen, the grunts. If they aren't behind a coup, they are all well trained and well armed to crush it.

As for the argument saying that armed school employee's could have stopped the violence at an early stage, there's a quandry to that. For any of the adults to have shot the threat, they would have had to have quick, easy access to a firearm. But surely having easily accessed firearms at a school full of children is not something you advocate? I've seen fellows fresh out of firearms training do something stupid that injured people.

You and I agree on two things. Mentally unstable people should not have access to guns, and the stable people should not be stripped of all guns. Unfortunatly, the only way to effectively screen for mental issues is to have paperwork, and even then, you do not need a gun engineered to kill large numbers of people.

As for gun collectors, they are protected from seizure of their collections, becauuse doing so would be enacting ex post facto legislation.