The guns

The French President Nicolas Sarkozy is to have a talk with President Obama today. 



Arizona, where a shooting killed six people and gravely injured Rep. Giffords, is known to have lax laws on gun possessions.  Arizona has the law passed last July allowing the possession of concealed guns for over 21 year old.  The suspect used semi-automatic weapons for the shooting.  Rep. Giffords reportedly did possess guns.

Rep. Carolyn McCarthy (D-NY) said, she will introduce the type of ban on the larger magazines, or clips which is illegal in the state of NY and had been the law until it was repealed in 2004. 

In the United States, around 100,000 people are shot and 30,000 dies each year including suicides.  Individuals possess more than 200 million guns.  That means, around 80 people dies each day by gun related incidents.  More than half of the deaths are homicides.