that Newtown, Conn., is just one of many communities that have experienced gun violence and its carnage.
Newtown did not experience “gun violence” No gun got up that day an decided it was going to go an kill children and no gun did so. A evil sick human being got up that morning and decide he was going to go and kill children and he did. If as a public official you do not even understand the problem how can you help solve it?
Allow me to re-phrase that: "An evil sick human being got up that morning and decided he was going to go and kill defenseless children in a defense-free zone and he did so while half a dozen adults fail to effectively oppose him despite their moral responsibility to do so. "