> DO SOMETHING ABOUT YOUR DESTRUCTIVE & DYSFUNCTIONAL GUN LAWS.

Fine, but what exactly?

I'd also remind you of the "War on Drugs." Drug laws became draconian in the 1960s. In Texas, for example, you could (and would) get five years in State Prison for being in possession of *one* marijuana cigarette.

Then there was the education campaign: "This Is Your Brain on Drugs": the image of a frying egg.

Now, forty years later, drug use of all kinds is nearly as widespread, and marijuana has even been legalized in two or three states.

For some people, guns are a drug. Tighter laws, while certainly desirable, will not stop all shootings, and they absolutely will not stop massacres by lunatics.

Confiscate the guns? Impossible for both practical and Constitutional reasons.

Collect all the guns? Very few people will turn them in. Why would they? (Nor will *criminals* and the *paranoid* turn them in - exactly the people we're most concerned with.) A law demanding that guns be be turned in would be unconstitutional, and, as some of us have observed over and over again, the Second Amendment will not be repealed (and probably will not be significantly modified) short of a vast sea-change in politics, psychology, and society.

Roof had been charged with felony drug possession. That should have prevented him from buying the gun in a gun store.

It is not clear just where he bought it, but if it was from a private owner, no background check was required.

Now *that* law certainly does need to be tightened. It was absurd from the beginning.

Maybe it will happen.