Sadly, I'm inclined to agree Joe. So not not take away for one minute from the current tragedy in Orlando, but it needs to be asked how many people in the US are going to have to die as a result of ready access to guns before people and communities say enough is enough!

If the Civil Rights movements in the 1960's protesting against racial discrimination and segregation was able to promote change who is to say a national movement on that scale couldn't overcome resistance by the NRA and allies given time?

I don't for one minute suggest this would be any easy process but if the alternative is to do nothing then the US needs to take a long hard look at the human toll and suffering that has been and is a result of its foreign policy and military interventions around the world. In the immortal words of Marvin Gaye:

Mother, mother
There's too many of you crying
Brother, brother, brother
There's far too many of you dying
You know we've got to find a way
To bring some lovin' here today, eheh

Father, father
We don't need to escalate
You see, war is not the answer
For only love can conquer hate
You know we've got to find a way
To bring some lovin' here today, oh oh oh

Cheers,

Andrez

PS: Re the latter, Australia is little or no better as we seem to be happy to follow US foreign policy but at least we have better (but not perfect) control over access to guns in community settings.