These heartbreaking events are guaranteed to to recur. Chief Justice Warren Burger, considered as a conservative and strict constructionist who was appointed as Chief Justice by Nixon, stated that the NRA's interpretation of the Second Amendment as guaranteeing an individual's right to bear arms was "one of the biggest frauds, and I repeat the word 'fraud', on the American public by special interest groups that I have ever seen in my lifetime."

Another right wing jurist Robert Bork maintained that the Second Amendment guarantees states' rights to form militias, and not for individuals to bear arms.

This tragedy in CT will take a while to comprehend. It's devastating that so many people have to find a way to move foprward from here.