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"As the nation grieves those killed in Friday's mass shooting at a Connecticut elementary school, some California leaders have called for stricter gun-control laws.California, Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom said in a statement released after the shooting on Friday that the time to talk about gun control is now.\u201CFor those calling for the postponement of any discussion of gun and mental health policy in America \u2013 you are wrong,\u201D Newsom wrote. \u201CJust WRONG!\u201DOpponents of gun control tell KCRA 3 that knee-jerk reactions to major tragedies, like the Connecticut school shooting, only end up hurting more people.\u201CAny law that would ban such common handguns would take away millions of legally purchased guns from law-abiding citizens, many of whom have used those guns in self-defense,\u201D said Sam Paredes, director of the Gun Owners of California. \u201CMore gun laws won\u2019t stop the violence.\u201DThe guns that were used in Friday's shooting, 9-mm handguns, are some of the most common handguns in the country, used by most law enforcement agencies and millions of citizens, according to Paredes.But a violence-prevention expert tells KCRA 3 that gun control would help reduce the frequency of such major shootings.\u201CIt\u2019s not going to stop them, but carefully targeted gun laws could reduce the number of violent school shootings,\u201D said Darren Witemute, a violence-prevention expert and emergency room physician with the University of California Davis Medical Center.Witemute believes the term gun control is too vague, and that there needs to be a more specific way to reduce the number of guns that are used in violent crime.He said gun control should not be something brought up only when a major shooting happens that kills many innocent victims, but on an every day basis."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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