Not exactly a DGU

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Lemon Drop wrote:
This is a terrible tragedy….

Those guns are not going anywhere,

…so people need to know:

Are my own guns well secured? So kids and crooks can't get them? In waaaay too many cases, no.
Do my elderly relatives have guns? In many cases, yes. Should they? In most cases, no.
Do my kids play at homes with guns? Waay too many homes have guns kids can find. Are they secure? Often not.

Unless you plan to leave the country, that's all we got.

…which is exactly the gunners’ argument that they hope you’ll accept. There are just too many guns; we can’t do anything about it.

Other countries have done something about it, and have seen gun deaths (both accidental gun deaths and homicides overall) plummet. They had fewer guns (because every country on earth has fewer guns than we do), but they have provided a pathway that they followed successfully.

I think we could too. You may feel this is tilting at windmills, but I will continue to advocate for it as much as I can as long as I live.