Guns, The Only But Impossible Solution

There are an estimated 340 million people now in the United States.

It is said there are at least as many firearms — or even more. Imagine that, imagine that.

Today and every day for the next week or two, driven by how many more mass shootings there will be this month — and it’s a good guess there will be because one begets another and another — the focus will be on guns, mass shootings, all of that chatter we have come to expect, forget and get back to when some lost, angry, self-loathing white man kills a whole lot of people.

Meantime every week we’ll see and hear more news about black men who have done nothing except drive a car or walk past the wrong cop, being profiled by police while the next white male mass killer drives his merry way to kill lots of people.

Guns and what to do about them will be the first subject you read about or see on television news and the debate for a while, with predictable debate points.

Like on one side: ban automatic weapons, increase and tighten gun registrations, limit ammunition magazines and sales and so on and on and on.

And on the other side: thoughts and prayers, increase mental health treatment services, arm teachers (maybe now they want to arm shoppers?), and on and on and on like that.

But the real answer? The only answer? The only real answer?

Repeal the 18th Century muster-the-militia artifact called the Second Amendment.

Repeal it and pass laws that prohibit private ownership of firearms except under specific limited terms and estblish rules for their surrender by current owners or confiscation if they will not surrender them and that limit their use when they are allowed.

An example of such terms? Hunters for example.

Allow a hunter to own one rifle, one rifle not two or twenty, to be stored at a local police facility, checked and signed in and out for hunting trips with further controls like registering the trip, fines for late return of the weapon, limits on the amount of ammunition that can be purchased in a year, similar ammunition storage, weapon re-registration annually (like with a car? yes like with a car).

But the main point and the only answer to this, the only real way to end it all — all of it?

Repeal the Second Amendment and confiscate the guns, all 340 million of them.

But that won’t happen in the United States, will it?

No, it won’t.

In the alternative, this goes on and on and on  with no one safe anywhere since it can and does happen anywhere and everywhere with no warning though with the logic of hate.

No gun control law will limit or end the plague. Only 2nd Amendment repeal conceivably could do that: That simply cannot be accomplished in a nation in which more than 40 percent have and will again vote for the likes of Donald Trump.