Connecticut school shooting revives gun debate

LITTLETON, Colo. (AP) — Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper says there’s no use in waiting until news coverage of Friday’s mass shooting at a Connecticut elementary school fades to discuss gun control.

The Democrat says the nation “can’t postpone the discussion on a national level every time there’s a shooting,” because they’re too often.

More than two dozen people were killed in Friday’s shooting in Newtown, Conn., including 20 children.

Tom Teves, whose son Alex was killed in the Colorado theater shooting, says until the U.S. stops making weapons like the one believed to be used in the rampage, such mass shootings will continue.

Tom Mauser, who became a gun-control advocate after his son Daniel was killed at Columbine, urged officials to stop “playing defense” on gun control.

Such emotional appeals didn’t come only from gun control supporters. Dudley Brown of the Denver group Rocky Mountain Gun Owners predicts gun control advocates are “going to use the bodies of dead children to push their agenda.”