Guns replicate the names on the Vietnam War Memorial Every Eighteen Months

We are the most heavily armed society in history. Many embrace that as a guarantee of freedom. The death toll tells us otherwise. Guns replicate the names on the Vietnam War Memorial every eighteen months. Yet citizens vote for and courts affirm a personal right to bear arms. Today almost anyone has the right to possess what we used to call sub-machine guns. It is therefore inevitable that the slaughter will continue. Some will die at the hands of spouses and lovers. Shoppers, students, moviegoers, and policemen will randomly be slaughtered by madmen or extremists. Reduction of gun deaths to the rarity with which they occur elsewhere will not come easily or soon. Restricting rights to buy guns to those who have a demonstrated need for them is a necessary beginning that courts and voters must recognize. - gwc