NY Times "A Drumbeat of Multiple Shootings, but America Isn’t Listening"

[maxsolomon]

9. no, i've seen all the despairing "ban all guns" comments on DU

that typically follow mass killings, so there's no need.

we're stuck in a place where the overall body count for homicides keeps decreasing, but the pointlessness and horror of mass shootings resists solutions, as long as firearm access comes with such ease of access and so little ongoing responsibility.

personally, I've given up thinking that anything will change in my lifetime. its been 40 years since the NRA was taken over by absolutists, its probably 40 years before this tide of absolutism will recede. i don't have that long to live.

so my plan is to stay as far away from guns, and gun owners, as is possible, and keep my fingers crossed that i don't get into a random shooting incident. they happen pretty frequently in Seattle, so who knows.

whatever else is said about it, the 2nd was never intended to enable schizophrenics to amass semi-automatic arsenals.