should guns be illegal?

Just after midnight, police say a lone gunman walked into a movie theater in Aurora, Colorado, and opened fire. Police say the suspect, James Holmes, shot 70 people. As of July 20th, 12 of those people had died.
Beverly Ann M. said making guns illegal would have a worse impact. “That would only leave decent people unarmed and unprotected while only criminals would still be packing.”

“If only one of those victims had a legally concealed gun, they could have taken the gunman down and saved lives,” Samantha C. wrote. “We have to be able to protect ourselves.”

HLN’s Ryan Smith pointed out that because the shooter didn’t have a criminal record, there would have been no way to prevent him from obtaining the weapons used in the shooting.

The release went on to say, “Firearms industry members were briefed on such remarkable statistics as the 30.6 percent increase in jobs between 2008 and 2011, a 66.5 percent increase in economic impact and a 66.5 percent increase in federal taxes paid by industry companies….