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Now children as young as nine carry AK47s which can kill 30 people in seconds.

I can tell you this: If I'm ever in a position to call the shots, I'm not going to rush to send somebody else's kids into a war.

Every week, we read about horrific tragedies resulting from children who play with firearms and accidentally shoot themselves or their family members.

There is an essential difference between someone who harms a child on purpose and someone who harms a child by accident during combat in civilian territory.

People should not be in a position where their children have access to weapons and ammunition.

Some parents say it is toy guns that make boys warlike. But give a boy a rubber duck and he will seize its neck like the butt of a pistol and shout 'Bang!'

Clearly, we are courting tragedy by turning a blind eye to marketing gimmicks plainly intended to turn children into gun enthusiasts before they are even old enough to buy a firearm of their own.

There is a 'sanctity' involved with bringing a child into this world: it is better than bombing one out of it.

If have to undergo preschool safety checks every morning, why does a random thug get to own an assault rifle?

You don't send people to prison on the basis of what other people imagine, or on the basis of media sound bites like 'shooting an unarmed child,' when that 'child' was beating him bloody.