It's time for common sense

After the Connecticut school shootings, we must face the fact that a few fringe groups, mostly filled with people who are clinically paranoid or have a vested financial interest, have prevented common sense proposals to limit the carnage the insane or criminals can inflict on society.

The government’s primary responsibility is to protect its citizens; for too long that responsibility has been blocked by the NRA, gun manufacturers, and crazies who think they need weapons to fight their own government (consider the total arsenal of the US armed forces – which no country in the world could...