Our prayers go out to the families, teachers and students at Sandy Hook Elementary School. What can one say at such tragedy?

(27 dead, including 18 children [1])

NCR has written quite a bit about guns and gun violence this year. After the shooting in Aruora, Colo., shootings, we wrote this editorial: Editorial: We are victims of out-of-control gun culture [2]., in which we concluded:

No rationale exists for anyone, save law enforcement officers and members of a "well-ordered militia," to own an assault rifle and hundreds, even thousands, of rounds of ammunition. To allow another gun massacre to go by with nothing more than hand-wringing and empty words is not being considerate of victims. It is rather buying into a culture-wide denial and giving assent to the insanity. We need to talk seriously about gun control.

Our bloggers have also spoken up:

Johns Hopkins study recommends stronger gun laws [3]

Gun control in the context of the presidential debate [4]

Better gun control (without taking away your guns) is possible [5]

The media's part in a culture of guns [6]

Chicago gang members shoot hoops, not guns, at St. Sabina [7]