Sen. Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ) said on Tuesday that America’s problem isn’t that there are more madmen, it’s that guns are too readily available to them. In the wake of the shooting of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-AZ) and the murder of six others in a mass shooting over the weekend is pushing legislation to ban high-capacity gun clips.Lautenberg said it was outrageous that there hasn’t been a positive response to the shooting and said that if alleged gunman Jared Lee Loughner didn’t have access to high-capacity magazines, he likely wouldn’t have been able to inflict so much additional damage.
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