No matter if we stopped all gun sales tomorrow...

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68. I agree something needs to be done, but I'm not optimistic that it's possible right now.

I just think some things are too far gone at this point--like the number of guns and the amount of ammo that is already in circulation. There is no way in hell we'll ever be able to reduce those numbers, tax them, or anything else. I would suggest gun and ammo buy-backs, but I can't see our rethug-controlled House even consider having taxpayers footing the bill for something like that. They are too beholden to the gun lobby, and to drowning the government in the bathtub. They have also scared to many people into being willing to part with weapons they have no business having. And, the manufacturers will still keep pumping them out.

I definitely agree that laws need to be changed AND strictly enforced. The problem is, the obstructionists control one of the houses of Congress, and you can't pass laws without the House. I just hope that some of the rethugs come to their senses over this latest shooting. But, I don't have a lot of hope about that. These are the same people who saw one of their own get shot in the head, and they saw what it did to her. And, they've still been doing nothing about gun violence despite that, and despite several subsequent shootings. I just don't have a lot of hope about things changing at this point. Maybe if the Dems can get the House back in 2014...