The article was correct in that we are not guaranteed the right to have certain guns, but we are allowed to have handguns due to the letter of the law presently. But to think that abolishing handguns will stop the violence is a sham. We have a society of misfits created by our own ignorance. We as a society chose to not punish or counsel these people earlier, and to the necessary extent. If we had, we would have eliminated the likelihood of these crimes.
Someone has to pull the trigger to kill someone.
We already have laws against this, and maybe if we enforced them and with stricter consequences the laws would work better. Look at the real news with your eyes open, please. Arrests made under the Brady law from 1994 to 1999 are below 50 for the whole country, that tells me that criminals don't get guns from a gun store. This leads to the capital punishment debate. Capital punishment may not eliminate all mass murders, but someone who is executed will not get a second chance to commit the same crime, and will be punished justly for the one they have committed.