A serious question

[Wounded Bear]

6. Your title is perhaps the most important thing you said...

Congress, led by the gun lobby sheep, has prevented much badly needed research on the methods and reasons for these crimes and terrorist acts. This really is a public health issue, and should probably be addressed as such, but the Repubs in Congress denied even hearings on a potential Surgeon General who had made that common sense point.

I'll agree that it goes beyond simple improvements in UBC and honing of 'no-fly' lists. But perhaps we have finally reached a point where doing nothing is no longer acceptable. Support for increased restrictions on the ease of which weapons are distributed in this country is near universal. The only block appears to be Congress.