Never was has a point with the rhetoric from both sides I've said it time and time again - the extremes on both sides spend all their time hollerin' and nothing gets done. And Kristy is right cause we gots to figure out a way to keep crazies from getting guns.

Banning certain types of firearms won't do the trick. There are exactly 7 gazillion AR style rifles in the US today. If the gubment bans new sales and requires current owners to register them most people who own one are gonna suddenly forget they have one. And if Crazy Charlie can't buy a so-called assault rifle then he's just gonna buy a shotgun or some other high powered rifle to carry out his fucked-in-the-head mission.

And Hill Dawg getting back on the "sue the gun manufacturers" idea is insane. You don't sue Ford if you get hit by a drunk driver and your new bad ass Challenger gets wrecked all to hell.

If you want to cut down on gun violence then you force every single person who's buying a handgun or long gun to pass a background check administered in the county in which they reside. It won't prevent criminals from carrying out illegal sales but it would close the loophole any states have that allow people to make an individual to individual sale, including gun shows.

The tough part is how to stop the crazies from getting a gun. Would a psych evaluation paid for by the applicant do the trick? Who's going to administer it? Who's going to make the determination that you're a nut case but Kristy isn't? Future intent is pretty hard to predict.

We could prevent these types of shootings from occurring if the gubment rounded up all weapons except for those that are single shot. But again, most people are gonna have a terminal case of amnesia if the Law Man shows up and says lemme see your guns. And the criminals certainly ain't gonna suddenly develop a conscience and turn theirs in.

The problem isn't guns. The problem is we've got a fucked up segment of society that, while extremely small, carries out these mass murders mostly just for notoriety.

So tighten up background checks, slap a waiting period on handgun purchases beginning the day an application for purchase is approved, require a safety/training class to be paid for by the applicant. Those are things we can do today without infringing on anybody's Second Amendment rights.

And we need to rethink these so-called Gun Free Zones. Or just rename them what they are - Murder Magnets.