Durst: Guns, Guns and more Guns. That's the ticket.

Wednesday, December 26, 2012 6:04 am

It’s only human nature to want to take action after such a harrowing traumatic event. To do something. Anything, to protect our kids. And make sure that Newtown never ever happens again. Here. There. Anywhere.

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Gun Control

Tom Teves, father of Alex Teves who was killed during the Aurora, Colo. shooting, helps carry boxes of signatures to Senator Jeff Flake's office on Friday, April 5. [Allison Hurtado/Ahwatukee Foothills News]

Gun Control

Ahwatukee Foothills resident Ellen Davis spoke during a press conference Friday, April 5. Davis started an online petition for stronger gun control the night of the Aurora, Colo. shooting. She and a group of advocates turned in over 120,000 signatures to Senator Jeff Flake's office. [Allison Hurtado/Ahwatukee Foothills News]

Gun Control

Tom and Caren Teves, parents of Alex Teves who was killed during the Aurora, Colo. shooting share a brief moment with Jennifer Longdon, a victim of gun violence who was paralyzed when hit by random gunfire. The Teves family and Longdon were part of a group turning in over 120,000 signatures to Senator Jeff Flake's office, encouraing him to vote for stronger gun control laws. [Allison Hurtado/Ahwatukee Foothills News]

Gun control

Tom and Caren Teves, parents of Alex Teves who was killed during the Aurora, Colo. shooting, spoke during a press conference outside Senator Jeff Flake's office in Phoenix Friday, April 4. The Teves family encouraged Senator Flake to vote for stronger gun control. [Allison Hurtado/Ahwatukee Foothills News]

Gun Control

Protestors gathered outside Senator Jeff Flake's office on Friday, April 5 to encourage the senator to vote for stronger gun control laws. [Allison Hurtado/Ahwatukee Foothills News]

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Gun sales

Owner Ron Sega shows an AR-15 assault rifle for sale at Guns Etc. in Chandler. He said sales are up of late in large part because of buyers' concerns about the potential for new gun laws in President Barack Obama's second term.

Gun Politics

FILE - In this April 16, 2007, file photo, state and local police wait for a building to be cleared by police on the Virginia Tech campus in Blacksburg, Va., following a shooting incident. Gun control advocates sputter at their own impotence. The National Rifle Association is politically ascendant. And Barack Obama’s White House pledges to safeguard the Second Amendment in its first official response to the deaths of at least 12 innocents in a mass shooting at a new Batman movie screening in suburban Denver. Once, every highly publicized outbreak of gun violence produced strong calls from Democrats and a few Republicans for tougher controls on firearms. Now those pleas are muted, a political paradox that’s grown more pronounced in an era scarred by Columbine, Virginia Tech, the wounding of a congresswoman and now the shootings in a suburban movie theater where carnage is expected on-screen only. (AP Photo/Don Petersen)

Guns on campus

Flanked by opponents of legislation to allow guns on college campuses, Sen. Steve Gallardo says lawmakers should instead focus on proper funding for the schools, both academically and for law enforcement, rather than simply erasing an existing ban. (Capitol Media Services photo by Howard Fischer)

Guns on campus

Battleship gun

The last surviving gun from the battleship USS Arizona lies rusting at a U.S. Navy storage yard in Virginia. Secretary of State Ken Bennett is trying to raise $500,000 to transport the gun, along with a gun from the battleship USS Missouri, to display outside the State Capitol. (Photo Courtesy of the Arizona Secretary of State’s Office)

Guns on Campus

Gun Rally Arizona

Gun rights supporters stand outside the Capitol Sat, Jan. 19, 2013 in Phoenix during a Guns Across America rally. The nationwide rally was in support of the 2nd Amendment and called for no new gun laws. (AP Photo/Matt York)

Gun Rally Arizona

Gun ban petition

Brown: The futility of gun control

Saturday, August 4, 2012 1:49 pm

"A well-regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.” — The Second Amendment

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More Gun Control

Good Samaritans temperature guns

This Monday, July 2, 2012 photo shows Los Angeles Police Officer Jim Cherrette holding a temperature record stick in Los Angeles to demonstrate how hot a closed car can get. Good Samaritans, temperature guns and tougher laws are the newest tools in the campaign to keep animals out of hot cars, where just minutes can mean death. More calls are coming in about overheated dogs _ and officials say that's a good thing, because more people are aware of the problem and calling before it's too late. (AP Photo/Nick Ut)