I have a six-year-old nephew.

[patrice]

1. I wonder if too many people aren't thinking of "Kevin" too narrowly, that is, they're willing to

take their chances on whether their "Kevin", directly related or not, will encounter the same/similar fate as our Newtown kindergartners. They "make that calculation" and decide to go with the odds, justifying their own passivity and inaction on the issues, 'cause "it ain't goin' to happen" to one of theirs.

Problem is that is the wrong way to think about it: what people SHOULD be concerned with is how these kinds of events, especially those writ large by assault weapons, their sophisticated accessories, and even larger weapons, WILL have indirect consequences on the lives and liberties and happiness of people who never involve themselves in the ownership of weaponry one way or another nor directly experience the violence and those ripples of consequences will only become more and more extreme, affecting the freedoms of more and more people, if we don't try for whatever chance we have of reducing these events to whatever degree possible.