i am sorry but i don't get why the gun control lobby has power. is it the money they give to politicians?  is that money so important that the politicians vote against what the public wants? we have too many guns in America and too many people who should not have them have access to them and use them to kill other citizens. now we are going to learn the boy who shot the theatergoers was a quiet, nice boy living down the street. he was a good neighbor and a friend. everyone who knew him will tell how they liked him and how shocked they were that he did these horrific things. well could he have done so much damage with a knife? if he did not have access to guns he could not have done what he did and forget that nonsense about others if armed should have stepped in and stopped him from killing all the people he did. fact is they would have shot the wrong people, others would have shot them or the cops would have and there would be even more pandemonium. if we are not going to control access to guns we need to figure out how to level consequences at those who take the laws into their own hands and severely punish them so they don't see themselves on the cover of TIME magazine but rather see themselves put away on hard terms forever.