[Margaret Pilkington]

Retlaw, your last sentence is the crux of the matter.
'Education can solve many problems'
However the biggest problem is that you cannot put sense where there is none....and to be educated, you have to want to be educated...you have to want to instigate change.
Alas, in the US there is no desire to change, or to be educated.
I watched a TV program where a couple were taking their five year old child to choose her first gun...and later it showed them on a firing range with her.
Please tell me if you can....where is the sense in that?

Those who have malign intent will always be able to get weapons...an illegal weapon is just as deadly as a legal one.

I really do despair of the way this world is going.