[Magdalen] A gun control legislation conversation.

[James Oppenheimer-Crawford]

I think that's well put.

James W. Oppenheimer-Crawford
*“A life is like a garden. Perfect moments can be had, but not preserved,
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On Fri, Oct 2, 2015 at 11:45 PM, M J [Mike] Logsdon <mjl at ix.netcom.com>
wrote:

> Nothing bad, but I'm genuinely surprised.  My lead and co-worker, J,
> responded to yesterday's news with the horrible saw of "Gun control laws
> won't stop this from happening."  As her elder, as a master of the English
> language (sic sic sic), and as a priest, she definitely listens to what I
> say.  I didn't disagree with her.  What I did say was along the lines of
> "Even Obama says we obviously can't stop the lone wolves totally.  But
> since gun control leglisation has nothing to do with second amendment
> rights (which, by the way, are not about the right to carry semi-automatic
> killing machines into local restaurants just because some states say you
> can), we HAVE to start somewhere, in order to catch up to the STARTING
> POINT of other civilised countries -- and by the way, that means all of
> them -- and at least make gun ownership as bothersome yet doable as
> everything else we take for granted.  We have the right to own and drive a
> car, but not without a license and insurance.  You and I enforce floodplain
> regulations, which many consider a "taking", but our answer is always that
> they are in place to preserve and protect against unmanaged and damaging
> development in areas that could otherwise become death traps during even
> minor flooding events.  It's not about guns.  It's about requiring every
> member of the body politic to behave in a way that remembers that without
> said laws, asshol*s get these high-powered killing sticks and shoot up
> elementary schools much easier than without them.  Sum it up as having your
> president come into the White House press room to talk about such things,
> every other month or so, instead of what feels like, and often is, actually
> every month.  Obama knows he'll have to do it again.  But he doesn't want
> to keep his notes in his pocket so as to be ready at the drop of a hat."
>
> She more or less got the point.
>