People in most law-governed democracies other than the United States,
countries like Britain, Canada, France, Israel, the Netherlands and
Japan, do not have an individual right to bear arms.
Gun control is on a long list of things that could have saved many
people's lives and made the world a better place, but for which it is
now probably too late: a two-state solution to the Palestinian-Israeli
conflict, EU action to avert economic catastrophe, stopping global
warming. So this is just what one of America's many faces is going to
be: a bitterly divided, hatefully cynical country where insane people
have easy access to semi-automatic weapons, and occasionally use them to
commit senseless atrocities. We will continue to see more and more of
this sort of thing, and there's nothing we can realistically do about
it.
Gun control
Too late
Jul 21st 2012,
http://www.economist.com/blogs/democracyinamerica/2012/07/gun-control?spc=scode&spv=xm&ah=9d7f7ab945510a56fa6d37c30b6f1709
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