Sad as it is to realize, this coming Sunday will mark two years since the massacre of students and teachers at Sandy Hook Elementary by an evil person whose name I refuse to type any longer.

The sickening details of the crime committed are well-known, and we have written about them before. However, with the date coming up again, anti-gun groups have joined up with Sandy Hook teachers to push for… more background checks and for bans on “high-capacity magazines.” A group of Sandy Hook survivors appeared on CBS Sunday Morning to talk about what they want to happen now.

They say they want to close loopholes that allow online and private gun sales without background checks.

In a survey 74 percent of NRA members supported universal background checks for all gun sales.

But, as an organization, the National Rifle Association emphatically does not.

“We’re at a tipping point,” said Mary Ann Jacob, who works in the Sandy Hook school library. ” We’re up against a really big lobby, but we know we can make a difference.”

They insist this is not a political issue.

“In this situation, it has nothing to do with whether you’re a Democrat or a Republican or an Independent,” said Wexler. “It’s, ‘Do you want to keep guns out of the hands of dangerous people?'”

“My husband is a member of the NRA,” said Jacob, “and there’s guns in my home in a safe. My husband and my kids like to hunt, and they like to do skeet shooting.

“This discussion really comes down to how can we prevent gun violence, not how can we take people’s guns away.”

They are pushing for a ban on high-capacity magazines for assault weapons.

“The [fewer] bullets in a magazine, in our case certainly, there could’ve been more survivors,” said Jacob.

While these teachers have been through a hellish experience and will continue to struggle with the aftereffects for years to come, I still have one question for them.
Would either of these proposed laws have stopped the shooter on December 14, 2012?

The answer, though they may not like to hear it, is “no” and “no.”