Quote from Maverick74:
At the more fundamental core of the argument is the idea on the left that the government can control people which they can't. I rather treat the cause, not the affect. Spend more money on trying to find guys likes Holmes BEFORE they go postal. Rather then pretending if we make guns harder to get that people like him will simply throw their hands up and say, I give up.
It's not an either / or problem. Just like taxing and spending. The right seems to try and simplify everything into black and white arguments. Our problems are more complicated than that. And making guns harder to get for people like Holmes is more gun control.