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The question you want to ask yourself is, in the case of Sandy Hook, the shooter was armed with a semi-automatic assault rifle, so now: should the school guards have semi-automatic assault rifle with 20, 40 rounds of ammunition flying out of there around your school children?
Tom Diaz, Senior policy analyst at the Violence Policy Center and author of the book “Making a Killing” on today’s To the Point

Does gun control matter in an election year? Warren Olney talks to The Los Angeles Times’ James Rainey.

On today’s To the Point, Warren discussed the shooting in Aurora. (You can hear the full show, here.) Here are voices of witnesses and a discussion Bryant University Professor Gregg Lee Carter who says shootings with four or more victims happen about two dozen times a year in the United States.