other humans. It's not for hunting and it's not the kind of thing you keep in your purse for "protection". It's a murder machine. It has nothing to do with the Second Amendment. We have to take the power away from the big money behind the NRA and its ghoulish pals if we are ever going to see any improvement. I can tell you one place that has perhaps the toughest gun control laws in the world, and virtually zero gun deaths per capita - SINGAPORE. Note if you're in a hunting club you can own a gun, but it's still pretty restrictive. Here are some of the punishments as stated in the Arms Offences Act. Any person who is in unlawful possession of any arm or ammunition shall be guilty of an offence and shall on conviction be punished with imprisonment for a term of not less that 5 years and not more than 10 years and shall also be punished with caning with not less than 6 strokes. Any person who uses or attempts to use any arm shall be guilty of an offence and shall on conviction be punished with death. I can see from previous comments that despite this tragedy and previous ones, Americans are still not ready to understand and accept the urgent need to limit the availability of guns to civilians in that country ... what can all the rest of us do but brace ourselves to read of the next senseless killing ...