We can't stop gun violence if we don't control guns.

"Assault weapons ban dropped from Senate bill" (story >)

A sudden fit of frustration followed by apathy seized me when I read that. I don't know why, there was nothing especially more troubling about this news than any other that day...

Seven Marines die during live-fire exercise in Nevada
Ohio school shooter wears 'KILLER' shirt in court, gets life in prison
Persecuted, Christians flee postwar Iraq
Deadly chemical weapons attack reported in Syria

Just the timing, I guess. At some point, when those in charge keep avoiding the job you elected them to do, you shrug and give up.

We can't control people, and we apparently can't control what people use to hurt themselves and each other.

I have some hope in Rand Paul. A little. Not on this issue in particular, but in his common sense that will extend to this issue.

We need another generation of Jimmy Stewarts.

I'm probably thinking of Jimmy Stewart because of Rand Paul's filibuster, which was great drama for those that remember Stewart in Mr Smith Goes to Washington.

I know he was an actor. Aren't we all?

[2013-03-19]

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If guns were not available, this would not have happened three days after I started the story above:

Young muggers shot baby in head while in stroller >

The boys arrested are 17 and 14 years old.

17 and 14.

And they shot a baby in a stroller.

What the hell has happened to this country.

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Gun rights advocates are right.

It's not about guns.

Is it.

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