Mitt Romney, responding to the deadly shooting rampage in Aurora, Colo., asserted Wednesday that the United States does not need stricter gun laws, saying they could not have stopped the killing of a dozen people by a lone gunman at a movie theater.
“I don’t happen to believe that America needs new gun laws,” Romney said in an interview with NBC News, which was filmed in London on the first day of the candidate’s weeklong trip to Europe and Israel. “A lot of what this young man did was clearly against the law. But the fact that it was against the law did not prevent it from happening.”
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Although he appears to make some contradictory comments in this piece as his own stance relates to that of the NRA, I have to agree with the 1,000ft comment that indeed, the Country does not need stronger laws. We do need to refine and enforce some existing laws. I'm a common sense gun owner who has gone through the process of obtaining LTC's in several States including the Commonwealth. The laws & regulations are so disparate and vague that it can boggle the mind. All of that said, no law will ever keep a truly driven person from fulfilling his or her objective if that objective is mayhem. guns, knives, cars, chemicals, you name it. Awareness is the best possible key to prevention.