“D-uh, gun control laws can’t ever make a difference because
criminals are always going to break the law, duh yup-yup.”
It needs to be sharply, federally illegal to sell firearms
or ammo to unqualified purchasers. There must be a ban on the sale of
high-capacity magazines, bump stocks and whatever, and firearm ownership and
operation needs to be more regulated than that of vehicles, with stringent
programs of licensing, registration, instruction, inspection. No one is
pretending crazy lunatics and evil bastards are going to obey such laws; it
will be in the compliance of the sane and decent general public that such laws
diminish the incidence of atrocities.
Gun lovers too often fail to recognize that strident control
and regulation of all firearms possession will be consistent with a better
armed law-abiding public. Making it much
more difficult for the wrong people to obtain guns goes nicely with the right
people owning and carrying them. That flip side will likely contribute to
public safety, too. Liberals will be as
happy as conservatives when someone takes out a shooter before he gets underway.
It’s way past time to have posted armed protectors at all
public schools, but I still wonder why no one particularly advocates nonlethal
school security measures. Other all-too vulnerable
venues as well, for that matter, might as well set up high-tech surveillance systems
that can deploy taser and CS gas to stop a dangerous intruder. Not necessarily *instead* of armed security,
mind you, but as a perimeter that much more secure. That way, too, someone mistakenly taken for a
danger might survive it.
