I have said this before, but it probably needs to be said again: Strict gun control laws1 are not going to stop mass shootings in the United States – for at least two reasons. First, regardless of how obvious such laws may seem to some people, the Constitution prohibits them (at least until either a constitutional amendment is adopted [the estimated effective date of that being f-o-r-e-v-e-r] or the composition of the Supreme Court changes). Also, lots of people oppose them.
But even if strict gun control laws were passed, that wouldn’t solve the problem of the tens of millions of guns already in the United States – unless you are going to conduct a house-to-house search for illegal guns. Some people say we should have never allowed all those guns to be here. But they are here now – and we have to deal with the situation as it is, not as how we wish it were.
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