some interesting comments on this page about how poorly people follow the law. i think we've all probably done illegal things because we wanted to and because it was reasonably easy to do. call it a morality problem or whatever else you want, but it's an integral part of the entire gun problem here.
i've long felt that part of gun ownership should require some kind of licensing aspect so that people who own them know how to use them, how to store them, and how to responsibly care for them to avoid accidents and the like. i still feel that way. i'm not suggesting this would curb the number of shootings.
i also feel very strongly about the need to round up and remove the staggering number of illegally obtained guns out there. i have no idea how to do this, but i'm guessing a fair discussion about it could generate some reasonable ideas. this should be on gov't to do. maybe connecting it to the licensing idea is a starting point.
i'm not sure how effective any of this will be, but i know that maintaining the status quo right now won't do anything to reduce the insane number of shootings that are going on here on a daily basis. we're playing our fiddles while rome burns. something reasonable needs to be done.