One person shooting many people is just the flip side of many people shooting one person

[JDPriestly]

15. Thank you.

The more violence there is, the less safe we feel, the more violence there is, the less safe we feel . . . . . . . .

It is a self-creating crisis, a spiral.

Passing a law that requires gun-owners to identify themselves and their guns and preventing people who have sought mental health care from being able to identify themselves as gun owners will help if it makes us feel safer, but it won't really change much.

Because the identification and background checks will not prevent people who are suicidal or extremely angry (and shooters usually fit into one or the other of those categories) from finding a gun somehow if they want one or using some other method to harm those they want to harm.

And furthermore preventing people who are identified as "mentally ill" (which does not include a lot of shooters) from owning guns won't prevent them from finding guns either if they want to have them.

And then, as the OP points out, the police have guns and can use them just as foolishly albeit maybe less intentionally to kill innocent or helpless people as some guy who bought his as Walmart.

The gun legislation may help some, but we won't get change until we ourselves change and acknowledge that something in our culture is the problem.

Maybe we are a bit addicted to violence. Maybe we are just impatient. Maybe we make too many excuses in our movies, in our lives, for violent outbursts. Maybe we don't value forgiving. Maybe we take small insults too seriously. Maybe our society is one in which many people are just plain left out and lonely.