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Fort Hood, the military reservation located in Killeen, Texas and 20-year- old Adam Lana fatally shot 20 children and 6 adult staff members of the Sandy Creek Elementary School located in Newton, Connecticut. Both males had a history of mental illness and the deaths and injuries could possibly have avoided if the gun control regulations were stricter or included a provision for restricting access to guns by persons with a history of mental illness. Public Safety Mental illness and childhood bullying has been a leading causes for many Of the shooting across the world.Public safety was the key to the debate in Connecticut after the tragic shooting of the Sandy Creek students and staff to demand stricter, more sensible gun laws. The primary goal is to protect the children and prevent additional massacres. President Obama wants to ban almost all reinserts of military surplus firearms to private entities. This will lead to the closure of a 1 1 a-year-old Civilian Marksmanship Program. The weapons used in the Columbine shutting were military grade weapons. The ban by President Obama is solely to keep military grade fire arms off the trees.The weapon used in the Sandy Creek Elementary School was a Bushmaster Model XML 5-SEES rifle. According to â€Å"There is so much ample evidence of the inability of the civilian world to control these weapons, that is no longer reasonable to entrust them to for that purpose,† Joshua Kickoffs, an attorney representing the families, said in an interview. â€Å"How many massacres do there have to be before that is realized?