For your consideration:

1. There are at least 200,000,000 *legal* guns out there right now. And maybe as many more that are *illegal.* They will not go away. In other words, no conceivable gun control can absolutely prevent massacres such as this one, or the tens of thousands of shootings, intended and accidental, that occur annually.

2. As long as the Supreme Court believes that the Second Amendment guarantees the right to bear arms (and that includes ammunition) to all law-abiding citizens, no law can prevent a lunatic with no criminal record from getting as many guns and bullets as he wants.

3. Nor is it possible for any legislation to outlaw the purchase of firearms by apparently law-abiding citizens - and that includes citizens who are about to break the law big-time.

I won't say that no tightening of current gun laws or their enforcement is possible (of course it is), but my reality sensors tell me that the effect on actual gun crime would be minimal indeed. The outlaws *will* always have guns, the unnoticed lunatics *will* always be able to get them, and other people will still shoot each other in fits of rage or intoxication.

Stronger laws would help somewhat, but they wouldn't fix the problem.