The gun people problem

“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.

Of *course* it’s not supposed to be this way. Here is the one thing we can do that will help the most: People, for the love of God, please -- vote Democrat or progressive, promising never to vote Republican/conservative for as long as you shall live.  I’m convinced that one measure would save countless lives and usher in a halcyon era for America.