The Death That Will Lead To Many More Deaths

This is and was as predictable as it is sad.  But that doesn't make it any less sad.

I share Senator Feinstein's anger.  Nobody in the Senate has more first-hand experience with gun violence than she does.  And, contrary to the spirits of many misguided posters, I don't blame Senator Reid; he is practicing the politics of the possible, not the politics of righteousness because, in the end, if it leads to a gun bill that does anything at all, the former will save more lives than the latter.  If you want to vent anger at anyone, vent it at the Republicans as well as red-state Democrats who are in the well-lined pockets of the NRA.  They are effectively shrinking what the politics of the possible can achieve.  (Although I offer this side note to Senator Reid:  next time, don't make deals on the rules with those who can't wait to twist them.)

No sportsman, no hunter, no self-defender has any more legitimate right to an assault weapon than he or she has to an H-bomb.  Can't wait to see what the commercials defending our constitutional right to plutonium will look like, when the debate gets that far.

Apart from armed insurrection on the part of progressives (and don't laugh, because we're closer to that than you realize), I think that the best alternative to an assault weapons ban would be Federalized strict tort liability for the manufacturers, sellers and owners of guns.  That won't stop the things from being made, sold or used.  But it may make owners like the Sandy Hook mother do what she should have done in the first place, and LOCK THE DAMN THINGS UP.  After all, isn't that what "responsible" gun owners are supposed to do?

But don't hold your breath waiting for anything like that.  All we can do at this point is wait for the next massacre.  And pray that more blood on the hands and heads of the gun enablers in and outside of Congress may accomplish what common sense apparently can't.