Well, I was waitin' for a perfect world for years and years. Then I realized it ain't gonna happen. You put guns in ordinary people's hands, that can be dangerous. You put guns only in the hands of cops and soldiers, that can be dangerous too, if the government gets on a certain kind of power trip. Either way. It all depends on about 10,000 different variables which I ain't gonna bore you with by listing them all here.

But I'll speak of a few.

There ain't a lot of murders in Switzerland, but it ain't because of guns or no guns, it's because you got a different society there with a way different social consciousness. There are 10 times as many people in the USA as in Canada, but way more than 10 times as many murders in the USA. Different social consciousness.

No new law or change in the law is going to suddenly make it all go away, folks. There ain't no magic wand out there that a legislator can pull outta his pocket and suddenly make your world safe again.

If there was...they woulda done it by now.

There has always been a lotta gun violence in the USA. It's a tradition, goin' right back to Davy Crockett and Wild Bill Hickock and Baby Face Nelson. That sort of thing tends to repeat itself, specially in the face of factors like grinding urban poverty and suburban alienation.

As for country folks (in more of a wilderness environment), they will always have guns...because in many cases they need them. How are you gonna pass restrictive laws that are flexible enough to take their special circumstances into account?