"Do Something! Anything!

What? What the hell should we DO to stop gun violence? Banning certain types of guns, or banning guns period will never work. We ban “assault rifles” (whatever they are) and we still have mass shootings using them. And mass shootings, no matter how terrible they are, only account for a small number of the people killed by guns each year. An even larger of people are killed by gang violence, and “assault rifles” are rarely used for that. They use guns obtained ILLEGALLY, since most gang members aren’t even old enough to be able to buy guns legally. Then there are the criminal types, who use their guns specifically to victimize the law-abiding, whom they are pretty sure will be unarmed, because, after all, they’re “law-abiding,” which means they abide by the law—which criminals do not.

None of the current anti-gun laws are worth a damn to restrain gun violence, but stupid politicians still insist on making them. I say “stupid” because these politicians have to know these laws are useless, even while they keep making them, and more and more law-abiding people die because of them. Of course, law BREAKERS die too. But that’s their problem. The point is, they flail around demanding we “do something,” but they have no suggestions as to WHAT we should do—because they don’t know, any more than we do. So the only thing that works to reduce gun violence is to allow the law-abiding to be armed for self defense—it’s a constitutional right, after all. They they will actually REDUCE gun crime, by killing one gun criminal at a time when he tries to victimize them. Don’t like that idea? Give me a better one. (Just common sense)