UPDATE: LANSING - This Thursday will mark two months since the tragic shootings in Newtown, Conn. But debate over gun rights and gun safety shows no sign of letting up.

Last month Lansing Mayor Virg Bernero called for action: put down the guns.

"The people dying by guns has gone up, we are not safer," Bernero said. "So the notion that the answer to the gun problem is more guns--and that's the NRA's answers--it is absolute nonsense."

Bernero joins a growing list of mayors from around the country demanding a plan to end gun violence. He says it's about demanding common sense.

"It's a logical, rational debate about the second amendment," Bernero said. "What does the right to bear arms entitle you to and how can we keep our community safe?"

The plan calls for universal background checks for all gun sales, a ban on military-style weapons and high capacity magazines, and to make gun trafficking a federal crime.

Total Firearms gun shop employee Rick Wyatt says the solution shouldn't be to make more gun laws.

"Rather than create something new, what they need to do is go back to zero and figure out something that's going to work among these and then enforce it," he said.

ORIGINAL STORY: LANSING - Last month Lansing Mayor Virg Bernero called for action: put down the guns.