With the mass shooting at Virginia Tech, is gun control still a dirty word in the USA?
Gun control is not only not a dirty word it is actually all over the USA. What you are calling for is the ban of all guns. This is forbidden by the constitution and more specifically the second amendment to the Bill of Rights ++”The conventions of a number of the States, having at the time of their adopting the Constitution, expressed a desire, in order to prevent misconstruction or abuse of its powers, that further declaratory and restrictive clauses should be added: And as extending the ground of public confidence in the Government, will best ensure the beneficent ends of its institution. Amendment II A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.”++ (http://www.archives.gov/national-archives-experience/charters/bill_of_rights_transcript.html) Gun control should consist of things such as not allowing the sale of guns and bullets at the same time. This is something I personally have witn