Democracy requires good laws; otherwise, the Freedom and Equality of a democratic government would create a chaotic condition. Of course, Law applies to every individual within the Nation and each individual lives under law as does the Social, its institutions, as well as the Top of government. Great care must be taken to insure that law is applied justly and equally because the individual that lives at the Bottom of triadic government is the essence of democracy. Everyone and everything exists under the 'roof' of the Constitution. If law applies to 'activity' that has the potential to create disorder within a democracy,it has the right to regulate the distribution of certain weapons within the social. That will not effect the Second Amendment. Not everyone is going to use weapons to kill innocent people and children but, unfortunately, some individuals, for whatever reason, will do just that. Hence, some control is essential. Will that control resolve the issue? Of course not! But, its a step in the right direction. Killing, murder, and mayhem will continue, but at least the easy availability of automatic weapons will have been made illegal. There is no such thing as an absolute solution. But, we cannot stand by and see atrocious acts against children being perpetrated in schools and not do anything about it. That would truly be a neglect of duty. The issue is not to control the mentally unstable because many mentally unstable don't kill children with weapons. No one can foretell when someone is going to lose their sanity and commit such atrocious acts. The best way is to control the easy availability of automatic weapons. How can anyone be against such laws?