Ideas have consequences

What a massive tragedy this slaughter of so many innocent children is. I cannot imagine the depths of grief that these parents are experiencing and can only pray that Gods amazing grace will settle over their lives.
I partially sympathize with the calls for gun law and agree that there should be tighter controls on the sale of weapons of wholesale slaughter. What 'hunter' needs automatic machine guns, sniper rifles and/or combat shotguns? Unfortunately though the facts show that excessive gun control does not work the way we would like it to:

Thomas Sowell puts it this way: “You might never know, from what they and other gun control advocates have said, that there is a mountain of evidence that gun control laws not only fail to control guns but are often counterproductive. However, for those other people who still think facts matter, it is worth presenting some of those facts.

“Do countries with strong gun control laws have lower murder rates? Only if you cherry-pick the data. Britain is a country with stronger gun control laws than the United States, and lower murder rates. But Mexico, Russia and Brazil are also countries with stronger gun control laws than the United States – and their murder rates are much higher than ours. Israel and Switzerland have even higher rates of gun ownership than the United States, and much lower murder rates than ours.

Which rams home the unfortunate truth which is that worldviews not guns are at the very centre of this tragedy. Guns are the tool, worldview is the motivation.

Gun control advocates will call for a crackdown on guns and petition President Obama for reform to make it more difficult for people to buy their hardware but how many Americans will address the shredding of the fabric of their society.

It has not gone unnoticed that this murderer came from a broken home, as did Norwegian Anders Behring Breivik, the man who killed 77 people in a bombing and shooting rampage in July, 2011, as have almost every mass killer in modern times.

This is not to say that most single mothers are not capable of raising a child alone, just that the record shows that killers are more likely to have been raised in single parent homes.

Single parent homes are rapidly becoming the norm in the US – they are a symbol of the social collapse.

....But as the parents of the fortunate survivors hug their children to them, Americans should consider the greater risk their society faces, the loss of the family and ultimately the bonds that make a civilisation.
 

Boldly said Piers.
Unfortunately Our PC society is quick to blame everything else but the deliberate destruction of the Judeo-Christian philosophy that used to underpin American society. Someone wise once said that when the fabric of the 'inner policeman" i.e. conscience, has been ripped apart, no amount of community policemen will be able to control the ensuing anarchy:

"Banning guns or knives or box cutters or stones will not prevent such attacks. Evil is what must be addressed, and evil does not lie in guns or rocks but in every human heart. As Solzhenitsyn once rightly said, “It was only when I lay there on rotting prison straw that I sensed within myself the first stirrings of good. Gradually it was disclosed to me that the line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between classes, nor between political parties either, but right through every human heart, and through all human hearts.” (Bill Meuhlenberg)

Unless there is a change of direction in the Western world at large the inevitable result is going to be increased chaos:

If chance be
the Father of all flesh,
disaster is his rainbow in the sky
and when you hear
State of Emergency!
Sniper Kills Ten!
Troops on Rampage!
Whites go Looting!
Bomb Blasts School!
It is but the sound of man
worshipping his maker.

Steve Turner, “Creed,” his satirical poem on the modern mind

UPDATE:  To those who wish to eliminate guns consider this morsel:

There are photos of Israeli teachers with guns slung around their bodies. Strangely, Israel does not have a mass shooting in a school every so often:

“Israel began the program of armed citizen guards in the schools after the Maalot massacre in the 1970s, when a large number of children were slain in a terrorist incident. The volunteer parents work in plain clothes, armed with concealed semi-automatic pistols, and are trained by Israel’s home guard. It is significant that in the more than a quarter century between Maalot and the incident mentioned above when the citizen guards shot down the terrorist in the school in 2002, not a single child was murdered in an Israeli school!
The reason is that Israel wisely publicized the fact that the civilian volunteer guards, indistinguishable from the regular teaching and administrative staff, would be in place. It served as a tremendously effective deterrent.”