We have a culture that holds gunds in high regard.
I got my first rifle for christmas when i was seven.
Like many americans i learned to shoot long before i learned to drive a car.
there is one prblem with stricter gun controll laws: they don't work.
And not working is a major problem. Doesn't matter how pretty the paint job is if
your car won't turn over.
That is to say, gun controll laws look good, and they shut a certain, reactionary sector of the population up.
But guns are still easy to get.
There is a thing called knowledge of consequence.
The people who do these things have a genuine lack of empathy and
either don't know or don't care about the consequence of thier actions.
It is a social issue, not a criminal one. The term 'maladjusted' hardly begins to describe
thier overall mental state.
I find comfort in knowing that there are guns in many houses in my city. And in reality i take heart when i hear of some guy pulling a home invasion
catcing a bullet for his trouble. And most, if not all, of those people realize the potential finality that could possibly result from the decision to use the gun they own.
You definitly cannot un-toast toast. And once that round leaves it's home in the cartridge and begins travelling down that barrel, there is nothing anyone or anything can do to stop it.
People are stupid. Peolpe get scared easily. Guns make people feel powerful.
It is getting to be an ancient equation that has entirely predictable results.