Legalizing drugs would go a long toward easing gun violence. At least we wouldn't have gang wars and people who need to raise $100 a day for their habit. Why didn't we learn anything from the Prohibition? Gun violence galore, and we're just doing it again.

Speaking of cops who shouldn't have guns, one of the children that was killed here recently was shot by her brother with their police officer father's gun. The kids and the loaded gun were were in the car. The parents weren't.