I'm being honest here. What's the thing with

[thucythucy]

101. Yeah, I remember.

And I come away from this thread way even more concerned than I was before about the easy availability of this lethal technology.

I have a neighbor (not immediate, down the street) who has what looks to me to be a Glock or some such hand gun. I know because he's shown it to me. The man is elderly, alcoholic, rather nasty at times--and evidently possessing weaponry with which he could easily take out a half dozen or more people, pretty much on a whim. I'm assuming he has been, up to this point, law abiding, "responsible" in his own terms. But a rather angry guy, who is becoming more angry and more, shall we say "deluded", as the years go by. For all I know, he could be coming down with Alzheimer's, or some other serious condition that is progressively impeding his thinking.

Do I report him? Why? He's law abiding, hasn't threatened anyone. Who do I report him to? And what do I say? I think he MIGHT at some point snap? Or do I wait until he does, and I hear the pop pop pop of gunfire coming from down the block?

Repeat that situation a million times over, and I think it spells real trouble.

As I said to you in another thread (just now, in fact), it shouldn't be this easy to kill people.

Anyway, I don't think I'll be able to convince you, and my reading of these last threads has left me, as I say, more concerned than ever, so I doubt you'll be able to convince me.

Hopefully there are people who will be able to come up with a meaningful solution to all this.