Can the US break its cycle of gun control failure?

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4. Social pressure against smoking and drunk driving have been effective.

I can eat in smoke free restaurants, rent rooms in smoke free motels, fly on smoke free planes.

Assholes who insist their smoking isn't a health hazard, who insist on smoking anywhere, are much rarer now than they used to be, as are drunks who insist on driving drunk.

People also ought to know the second amendment is bullshit, an ugly relic in our Constitution, just as slavery was.

The purpose of the second amendment has rarely been noble; instead it's a means of keeping a well armed population of fools around to further oppress the oppressed.

Slaves revolting, workers striking, Indians won't leave? Call the morons with guns. Call them a militia. Deputize them. Tell 'em they are patriots and they'll shoot anyone. They'll even buy their own guns and ammunition. If a few occasionally commit unsanctioned murder, shooting up Indian Villages, murdering black or gay people, it's just unfortunate.