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Getting guns off the streets does make communities safer. We can't stand here and say because we don't have the perfect solution, we shouldn't try.

There are too many guns in the hands of people that shouldn't have guns. There is too much gun violence in America.

It doesn't matter if gun violence is down. We need to get guns and bullets and automatic weapons off the streets.

The world is filled with violence. Because criminals carry guns, we decent law-abiding citizens should also have guns. Otherwise they will win and the decent people will loose.

More guns are not the answer to keeping our kids and our communities safer.

There is considerable merit to the notion of treating gun violence as a public health matter.

The pervasiveness of guns in our society is destroying America.

We all agreed that violence begets violence, and you can't solve issues with more violence.

In truth, there is no rational argument for guns in this society. This is no longer a frontier nation in which people hunt their own food. It is a crowded, overwhelmingly urban country in which letting people have access to guns is a continuing disaster.

I support gun control. But speaking honestly about the combustible mix of race and guns may be more important to stopping the slaughter in minority communities than any new gun-control laws.