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Explain how any of these laws you mention would have made a difference. The Club was a No Gun Zone. Murder is illegal in RI no matter how's it's committed. This guy had gotten background checks by the FBI. If the Federal laws are already on the books why repeat them? I can certainly see forbidding some one found guilty of assault, domestic or otherwise from owning a firearm, but it is way too easy to get a restraining order against someone and with no trial would violate the 5th Amendment "deprived of property without due process". You need the trial.

Why does anyone "need" a sports car, recreational boat, wide screen TV, high heel shoes, or any other thing that people have the freedom to enjoy in this country. Have you seen a Chinese sports car? Of course not, its not practical and you don't "need" them. .All the laws mentioned are still broken by people every day. Everyone has the potential to do their fellow humans harm, keep the blame where it belongs...on the evil humans that commit the crime not blanket possibilities.

As far as a majority agreeing, we live in a Constitutional Republic that is supposed to be focused on individual freedoms that are only taken when that person violates a fellow citizens freedom.