CNN PRODUCER NOTE     Italy-based iReporter MartiLuna may be thousands of miles away from Newtown, Connecticut, but the tragedy left her no less shocked. "I've been thinking about the poor kids and teachers in Newtown for a while and I felt an intense grief," she said. "The words came to me, they were inside of me." She says she has learned to use a gun herself, but feels there is a big difference between Italy and the U.S. when it comes to their sale and accessibility, with Italy much stricter on both counts. She says that while gun control laws work, it's education that will prevent such tragedies in the future. "I think the U.S. should introduce, apart from stricter rules and laws, an educational plan that provides the kids in school - and therefore future adults - a fairer idea of what life is and of the right of every single human being to live and to grow up," she said.
- sarahbrowngb, CNN iReport producer