Re: your last comment that there will always be crazy people and that we have lots of guns: True and true. But since since medical science is not yet able to fix mental illness it is incumbent on us as a society to reduce dramatically the number of guns in circulation. Every sensible person knows this, and sensible people far outnumber…
Re: your last comment that there will always be crazy people and that we have lots of guns: True and true. But since since medical science is not yet able to fix mental illness it is incumbent on us as a society to reduce dramatically the number of guns in circulation. Every sensible person knows this, and sensible people far outnumber gun-crazed people, yet politically we are paralysed by the fierce reaction of the gun lovers whenever there is the slightest hint of a gun control proposal. I guess it's an example of the line in Yeats wonderful poem The Second Coming that says... "The best lack all conviction, while the worst are filled with passionate intensity..."
The only solution I can envision is a massacre so terrible that the sensible people rise up in revulsion. But I don't know what that massacre would have to be, if murdering 20 little children and their teachers isn't enough.
Re: your last comment that there will always be crazy people and that we have lots of guns: True and true. But since since medical science is not yet able to fix mental illness it is incumbent on us as a society to reduce dramatically the number of guns in circulation. Every sensible person knows this, and sensible people far outnumber gun-crazed people, yet politically we are paralysed by the fierce reaction of the gun lovers whenever there is the slightest hint of a gun control proposal. I guess it's an example of the line in Yeats wonderful poem The Second Coming that says... "The best lack all conviction, while the worst are filled with passionate intensity..."
The only solution I can envision is a massacre so terrible that the sensible people rise up in revulsion. But I don't know what that massacre would have to be, if murdering 20 little children and their teachers isn't enough.