read this

"If the guy in Arizona had used a 5-shot revolver he'd never have gotten off 31 shots."
right! He'd ONLY have shot the congresswoman, and her aide...and perhaps the judge...and the 9 year old girl. That would have been MUCH better...

gnu... you tell me how to recognize a criminal before he shoots someone! Every generation will produce new criminals...that has been true for thousands of years. We can't reasonably control tendencies toward bad behavior...but we COULD, if we cared to, control many of the ways they inflict violence. I can at least, dodge and outrun many forms of violence.