Some are asking whether that is an indication on whether he will push for stronger gun control laws. Question for you is and should u. S. Gun laws change . Here are the numbers to call you can also find us online. Send us a tweet or join the conversation on facebook, or send us an email. Our question for you is whether u. S. Gun laws should change . Heres the headline in usa today jumping down into the story, it says others are exploring the question of gun laws. We will hear some comments from members of congress this morning. Congressional democrats are vowing to push for stricter gun control laws. Several democratic lawmakers called yesterday for a new push for gun restrictions, including a ban on militarystyle assault weapons in the wake of the connecticut massacre. Democratic senator Dianne Feinstein is the author of an assault weapons ban that lapsed in 2004. She said she would introduce new legislation soon. Senator dick durbin said that lawmakers will hold hearings on guncontrol and several others said they would devote attention to the issue. President obama says action is needed. Eres the store in usa today and the headline of the Washington Times mayor Michael Bloomberg of new york was on meet the press yesterday. Heres his perspective on whether the congress and the president should act. [video clip] if you stop people who have psychiatric problems, who have criminal records, Substance Abuse problems, if you stop every one of them from buying a gun, i cannot promise this articular event would not have taken place, but this particular event is just one of a series that happens again and again. A big chunk of those would have [indiscernible]. Its like saying theres no reason to have speed limits. If congress were to act, if congress were not so afraid of the nra, if they were to stand up and do whats right for the american public, we would all be a lot better off. Host mayor Michael Bloomberg yesterday. Our question for you is whether gun laws should change . The wall street journal as the deadline headline now allison from trenton on our independent line. Caller 1 question to be answered is whether or not anybody can put forth a good reason for people to have these guns. Give me an example of a time when it has come in handy, or its been a great thing, where it has worked to the benefit of someone or group of people. Why are they needed . If someone can give a positive answer about that, then maybe i would think that the assault weapons are needed. Otherwise, i cannot see reason for it. Im against gun ownership in terms of having assault weapons. If you have to have one to protect yourself and home, thats one thing. But rifles that are used for war to have as an everyday weapon makes no sense. Host on twitter and heres the New York Times lets hear from paul in pittsburgh, pennsylvania, a republican. Caller good morning. I have no problem with extending a ban on assault weapons in these multiple bullet type of things. We have had a ban on assault weapons in the past. It really did not do much. The problem is guns are like drugs. We have drugs in this country and its illegal for the most part, yet people have access to it and people overdose and kill over it. A more important question, and you should broaden your question. You seem to be concentrating only on the guns. I think the access Young Children have to violent videos is far more a negative influence on them than any guns are. These are the kind of things that lead to these incidents. We need to look at that. We need to take a serious look at how we treat Mental Illness in this country. We do a terrible job. A number of them are on the streets. These are areas it would behoove you to look into if you want to get a really clear picture of what we need to do. Host yesterday we started off the show by asking whether it was the role of government or society to work on the problem of shootings in america. This morning we are focusing on guns. Thats a lot of the focus in the oped pages. We will share a lot of those editorials with you on how the various commentators are weighing in on this issue. Next, david is joining us from florida, an independent caller. Caller good morning. Well, i have a comment about another caller that said she was looking for a good example of why we should have these type of weapons. I would like to point to the founding of this country. Without proper arms, it leaves our people unable to protect themselves from a tyrannical government. That is the purpose of the second amendment. It has nothing to do with being able to stop a home invader or personal attack. It is to provide protection to this country of the actual people, not the government. To just take away assault weapons leaves us on armed as the population. We see what happens time and again around the world. If you look at all the countries around the world that have an unarmed population and look at what happens to them. Host on twitter and congressman spoke yesterday about his opinion on guns. [video clip] every mass killing of more than three people in recent history has been in a place where guns are prohibited. Except for one of them. They choose this place. They know that no one will be armed. Having been a judge and having to look at photographs of these horrific scenes and knowing that children have defensive wounds, gunshots through their arms and hands as they tried to protect themselves, andy reid and heroics stories of the principal lunging, trying to protect them. I wished that she had had an m4 in her office so that she would not have to run with nothing in enhanced but instead takes his head off before he can kill those precious kids. Host representative Louie Gohmert of texas, a republican, on fox news yesterday. Bill bennett, former education secretary, says those comments were on meet the press. Senator Dianne Feinstein has a different perspective. She says more guns are not the answer. She plans to introduce legislation. A previous assault weapons ban was signed into law in 1994, but it expired. Jason is our next caller, washington, d. C. , democratic line. Caller hi. I dont think army teachers in the schools is a good idea. That is pretty irrational, considering if you have gun battles, you are exacerbating the whole situation. I think thats a really bad idea. I dont think necessarily you could take away all guns in the country and saba problem. They would just use other weapons, like they have in china, where they go in the classrooms and used swords and knives and start killing people . That would probably be a bad idea too. So i think its just education and trying to curb things that might influence people from doing such. Host what are some suggestions for that, jason . Caller its hard to say, because a variety of people get into a variety of situations. Whatever it is causes them to do things like that. Better time spent talking to your kids, more money spent on Mental Health, things of that nature, i would say. Otherwise, you are just point to end up with these situations occurring again. Host heres a story from cnns talking about this recent attack where a man wielding a knife entered a school. Injured 22 children and adults was also wounded. Some of those kids are in critical condition. No deaths. Does that make a difference to you . Caller certainly. I really dont know what you can do in a situation like that. If you look at guncontrol laws such as in phoenix, arizona, where they have certain laws, it has not gone up. But in states where they have pretty severe guncontrol laws, you dont see it affecting much. So its hard to say if gun control laws is the answer. It may not be. I dont think banning assault weapons will do any good, because then they would just use rifles or pistols. Host is a story from the evening sun john in new jersey, republican. Caller good morning. Im 85 years old. I have a partial solution to the problem. If you take gasoline and theres a gasoline shortage, therefore less driving and less accidents occur. If you do that with bullets, people should have to have a background check when they purchase bullets. The bullets should only be available to certain people. Without bullets, nobody will be able to fire a gun. Thats a solution. Host looking to more at connecticut gun laws and how they rank. Antonio, miami, democratic line. Do you think gun laws should change . Caller yes, i do. I feel like this. I find barack obama as being very hypocritical. Pointy white kids got killed is the reason 20 white kids. In illinois there is one of the worst gang murders in the country. Black kids being killed every day in the United States. Lived in miami. Its one of the worst crime cities in the country. But i never hear anything about it. The only thing i hear is every time something happens to a white kid. Its national news, its big news. Lets talk about all kids, not just the white kids. Host a tweet lets hear more from the commanderinchief in newtown, connecticut, yesterday addressing the cause of what happened on friday. [video clip] these tragedies must end. To end them, we must change. We will be told that the causes of such violence are complex and thats true. No single law or set of laws can eliminate people from the world or prevent every senseless acts of violence in our society. But that cannot be an excuse for inaction. Surely we can do better than this. If there is even one step we can take to save another child or another parent or another town from the grief that visited tucson and aurora and oak creek and newtown, and communities from t communitieso blacksburg before that, surely we have an obligation to try. Host that was president obama speaking last night. Were asking whether you think u. S. Gun laws should change. Heres what patricia writes on facebook you can join the conversation on our facebook page. Lawmakers called for introducing a ban on assault guns. This is in the wall street journal. You can see images of a variety of guns. Everything from the glock found at newtown imposition of the shooter and a semiautomatic assault weapon and a variety of guns. Van is our next caller in memphis, on our democrat line. Should gun laws change . Caller they should change assault weapons. This is for the military. What is a a 55yearold lady going to do with an assault weapon . They need to be banned. When this president got elected, they started buying guns like crazy, like he was going to take away their guns. He never said anything for the full you are years about assault weapons. They should change. Assault weapons need to go. Host lets go to frank in beverly, new jersey, on our republican line. Good morning. Its a great show. I really enjoy cspan. I want to make some comments about this issue. First, i want to say im really sorry for what happened. You can write all the gun laws you want and put all the gun laws on the books that you want. There are over 30,000 of them right now currently. You are not going to stop what happened in these schools by more gun laws. In order to stop this chaos and all this terrible stuff, you are going to have to do a lot more for the family unit in this country, because the family unit in this country is so broken now, its pathetic. You have kids that have no mother, kids that have no father, broken families, violence in the family, everything. These kids are sick. Anybodys right mind, other than being mentally deranged, how you could walk into a grade school and shoot little kids. I want to say another thing. Im proguns. I get tired of hearing comments bandied about on the news about assault rifles. Assault rifles are a military rifle that can have a switch on it that can shoot one round at a time or full auto. These rifles they are talking about are semiautomatic rifles. They are the most common firearms used in the country today. Host do you think there should be any kind of limits . Do you support any kind of gun laws . Caller no, absolutely. I do, background checks. Host which retains the current gun laws to make them more level or tighter . Caller where i live in new jersey, it takes on the average six months to get a pistol permit. You are not going to stop people like this guy that did this. Im not trying to make excuses so fire arms can stay available to the people. Like me, i belong to a club and we do a lot of target shooting. This is not going to stop. You cant legislate morality in people. Host on twitter what the you think, greg, in silver spring, maryland, democratic line . Caller good morning. Many callers are complaining gun laws will not have an impact because of laws dont have an impact and so on. What i propose is that the government firmly wraps around gun ownership heavy bureaucracy and very expensive taxes. I know that probably will infuriate most of the gun owners , but we somehow have to make it a customized privilege in this country to own a gun. Host is that fair . Should only be left to those who have a lot of money and can be very persistent in waiting for . Caller i will say it would be like buying a car, but it would be an investment. Maybe 1,600 or 2,000. For the people like the sportsman, if they really like guns so much and they will invest all this money on the gun itself, then lets add some bureaucracy, taxes, and make it a little bit more strenuous. Host here is the Washington Post front page lets listen more to the president s comments last night. [video clip] in the coming weeks i will use whatever power the office holds to engage my fellow citizens in law enforcement, Mental Health professionals, parents and educators, in an effort aimed at preventing more tragedies like this. Because what choice do we have . We cant accept events like this as routine. Are we really prepared to say that we are powerless in the face of such carnage, that politics are too hard . Are we prepared to say that such violence visited on our children year after year after year, are somehow the price of our freedom . Host president obama speaking last night. Do you think u. S. Gun laws should change . Don in ohio, democratic caller. Caller good morning. I really like your show. Host what do you think about gun laws . Caller when you have a problem, you have to get to the main center of the problem. The problem is these children are getting shot and killed and its happening all over the place. What would deter someone from doing that . Every school in the u. S. Should have a Police Officer stationed at each school. It should be funded by the federal government. If the federal gdansk to do something, they need to step up and put an officer in every school. Had there been an officer, there would not been near as many People Killed as there was ample might not have even been anybody. I have sat on the School Boards 12 years and i also sit on a board of trustees for a college. They need to really look at what the problem is and what we can do to fix it. We have all kind of Mental Health issues here. If in ohio we used to have a Mental Hospital in cincinnati called longview. The state shut it down and turn people loose. Theyre out on the street and dont get their medication would they need it. If you have a problem when people come in like this, how would you feel safe . If you had a Police Officer stationed right there. Dont give teachers guns. We should leave our gun laws the way they are, but i think we should have a professional person thee that knows how to fight somebody that comes in like that. Host what part of ohio you live in . Caller a little town called blanchester. Host what about malls, movie theaters, places of worship, should they have armed guards . Caller its getting to the point today that you might need that. And churches. Some of the people in our church, they take our offerings and lay it up front. I say thats an invitation for someone to rob the church. I say you should take the offering and walk its lock it up. I believe in concealing carry. I have a concealed and carry. When people have a concealed carry, somebody at that school might have been able to deter this. If the federal government wants to help the schools, they should give the funding. They need to fund every school in the United States should be funded with money from the federal government so there can be a fulltime Police Officer on staff in every building in every school of the United States. Host on twitter president obama talk about meaningful action last night. On the Washington Post, theyre asking what does that mean . The wall street journal has an opinion piece as well responded to the shootings in connecticut. Herman is an independent caller in louisiana. Whats your opinion . Caller when you have a gun free zones, you advertise to these mentally ill people that theres nobody there that is armed and nobody can stop them. An intruder with a gun. Host what would you do . Caller i would have the teachers have concealed weapons carry permits and to have the proper training or to have the federal government supplies the money to have a trained Police Officer at the schools. 20,000 gun laws on the books already and that did not stop anything with the school killings. It is a tragic thing. It is a terrible thing. But we should not have to give up our constitutional right because of these tragedies. All these politicians are doing is capitalizing on this terrible tragedy to take Constitutional Rights away from the american people. Hitler took away the guns from the people in germany. You saw the results. Host what about other kinds of gun laws . You talked about farming and officer arming an officer, some type of official presence in schools, but what about a bill to ban assault weapons . Caller it used to be and im getting mixed are they going to bring up banning semi automatic rifles . There were not been used in the crime, from what i understand. Host good morning to lois, a republican. Caller it is the people we have to worry about. It is Mental Illness. Families recognize their children as they are growing up. If that could be curtailed, i know they would hate to put them in a mental institution. I would, too, because they love their child just the same. But those children that grow up with Mental Illness, it does not matter how they get it, they are going to get weapons of some sort. It is not the guns that the problem, its the people. T