How best to reduce gun violence? #tellusatoday

Six months after the shootings in Newtown, Conn., we asked our Twitter followers: What's the best way to address gun violence? Comments are edited for clarity and grammar:

Members of Congress and states have done exactly what their voters wanted on the issue of guns. It differs by state.

— @MaggioMatt

Lawmakers should allow everyone who passes a background check and qualified gun-training course to own a gun.

— @JAZZYUSA

More gun control is not the solution. People are thinking with their emotions. We need to think with our brains.

— @gregoryakoch

There will always be crazy people, and there will always be illegal guns. Time is better spent defending yourself.

— @KandisBonnet

To reduce gun deaths, measure sentences for violent felonies in decades, not years or months.

— @billytheimpaler

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