The killing of 20 children reopens debate on U.S. Weapons

The thirty people mostly children  shot down during a shooting at a school in Connecticut this Friday ? push Washington to legislate on gun ownership? After aparticularly bloody year, the debate is reactivated. The state of  Connecticut , where the massacre took place,  does not require any sort of official permission  to possess rifles or pistols and  only requires that the holder is older than 21 years. Furthermore,  state laws do not ask for special permission  to buy  rifles or shotguns, but  another to buy guns,  and as in many other U.S. states,  the state does not exist in a complete record of the weapons are civilians . For all this,  the United States is the country with the most civilian gun ownership in the world , with between  270 and 300 million in private hands , according to the United Nations, a number that the National Rifle Association raised more than 300 million. The White House declined to take a position  on the issue of reform of the lawsgoverning the sale of firearms , after the  school shooting in Newtown. "I do not think today is the day" to discuss politics , government spokesman, Jay Carney, when asked about the issue . However, Rep. Jerrold Nadler responded immediately through your account of Twitter : "If this is not the time to have a serious discussion about gun control, I do not know when to arrive". "(The issue) is still on an unstable person who had access to firearms andcommitted a horrible crime against innocent children , "he said. "I call on President Barack Obama, the Congress and the American people to act beyond the shock and finally do something, "said Nadler. The Obama spokesman said the president's position is to ensure that those who are not authorized to bear arms shall not have access to them , while ensuring the rest of Americans the right to bear arms contained in the Constitution , in the famousSecond Amendment, the gun lobby has defended tooth and nail. Without concealing his weariness and anger, the U.S. media immediately reactivated the debate on gun ownership , just as they did when 12 people were killed during a shooting at a Colorado theater  and this week after a shooting at a downtown Oregon commercial,  which caused three deaths. "This is not a day for politics," said Susan Page, bureau chief of Washington 's major newspaper USA Today. But " this is the point of no return? I do not know , "he asked. However, defenders of the Second Amendment of the Constitution  asserts: " Being A well regulated militia necessary to the security of a free State , the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed . " They insist that the solution is not on the side of the restriction of the sale of semiautomatic weapons. The sale of automatic weapons on the other hand, remains prohibited. "We reject the misuse of firearms," ​​he told AFP Alan Gottlieb , founder of the Second Amendment Foundation (ESF). Barack Obama has argued that the opposition of Republicans in Congress makes impossible any reform of federal laws on arms trade, especially the ban on assault weapons that was passed in the 1990s under the leadership of Democrat Bill Clinton , but that expired in 2004 during the administration of Republican George W. Bush. A 73% of Americans showed in late 2011, against banning the possession of firearms in the country to citizens who are not members of the police or have special authorization, according to a survey by Gallup. The survey also highlighted that 26% favor banning gun possession marked a record low in 2011 , since twenty years ago the favorable opinion the ban was 41 percent.