Yanno, if someone (PURELY HYPOTHETICAL!! NOT ME!!) took assault weaponry and shot up NRA HQ or Congress, there would be calls for gun control so fast one could enter them in the Indy 500.
But of course, both the NRA and Congress have metal detectors and searches. (Which makes the NRA hypocrites--shouldn't they have people detectors? After all, guns don't kill people...)
I don't support a total ban; that's like trying to ban drugs. But short of something like the Compact (which was adopted for much worse weapons than -- oh. Brief explanation. "The principle was that anyone wishing to kill an opponent must come within an equal risk death himself. The Compact forbade the use and possession of all weapons capable of striking beyond arm's length." You don't have to read the Darkover novels. -- guns) or true "smart" guns, firearms in the USA are going to be problematic, and we're going to have
No, I don't have a solution, either.
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