Dealing With Guns

THE BRILLIANT RIGHT WING REDNECK on the radio actually said: "if the liberals want to live in a country where the government doesn't let people own guns, they can go to north Korea or China. I'll even pay for their ticket". I thought well. OK, fine. I get to choose which gun free country to move to, and the generous rightwing redneck pays for my one way ticket. Its a deal! Right now, I'm leaning towards England or Australia, but am still considering a Scandinavian county or perhaps somewhere on the European continent. All of these are countries in which the government, with much popular support, decided that the answer to gun violence is not more gun ownership, but less. And maybe they have a point, whether or not they are entirely correct in their strategy, or whether that strategy is applicable to America. In the United States, it may well be that the amount of gun violence would drastically decrease if all good American citizens, or most of them, were armed and ready to stop would be mass murders dead in their tracks before they ever got started. There is, however, something vaguely dubious about this idea. So, the FBI received a warning in advance about our latest mass murderer, just like they receive thousands of such warnings every day. almost all of these warnings are needless; almost all weird people who utter or write violence thoughts never act on them. So, how is the FBI to know, in advance, who will shoot whom, when, and where? If they start locking up everyone about whom they receive a warning, just listen to the uproar over civil rights and the police state. Well, as they say, whatever works. Maybe America should try both approaches, and then compare results. first, arm as many good people as possible, and over a period of a few years, count the bodies. If we're happy with the number, keep everyone armed. if the bodies begin to pile up, than, by majority rule, disarm. Unless all available information and statistics are fake news, a fabrication of a vast anti-gun liberal conspiracy, England and Australia are far less violent and far happier without guns than they were with them.