text: [Rep. Joe Barton, R-Texas, the manager of the GOP team, said there were "dozens if not hundreds of shots fired."] 
  
  Any Republican knows that assault rifles and high capacity magazines have nothing whatsoever to do with any mass shootings, like at elementary schools.  If only every legislator had an assault rifle along with a bandoleer of high capacity magazines then these type of things couldn't happen.    
  
  Please do not shoot the messenger, do not blame the gun.  Remember, guns do not wound, maim or kill politicians....like Gabrielle Giffords, John Kennedy or Robert Kennedy.  People like Martin L. King or people like George Wallace.  
  
  I am not anti-gun.  I do not advocate taking away the guns.  I do advocate responsible ownership, reasonable restrictions, universal background checks and waiting periods.   Lets not be coy about gun freeze zones.  I do not like reading about guns and violence in our country, be it at a church in the south or a baseball game for members of Congress.