Thank you for your thoughtful comment!

Yes, we can be thankful there are occasionally rulers with good sense and the good of the people at heart. It's been a loooong time since Kennedy. And I agree 100% that our politicians treat life as if it is cheap, a commodity to dispose of whenever that is more convenient and cost effective than keeping that life alive and prospering.

I'm afraid I disagree with your solutions though.

At this point, I do not support any new laws that restrict the rights of ordinary citizens in any way - we have too many of those as it is! I spend time every single day making sure I comply with the laws already on the books. No new laws governing regular people!!!

I'm a single parent. While I do not own a firearm, I'm certain I would be as responsible with one as one could possibly be. And single parent homes could in many cases need firearms MORE than two parent homes, so I can't support that idea.

Requiring psychiatric evaluations would add an enormous and costly burden to anyone wanting a gun, and open a host of dangerous opportunities for government to butt into our business, especially medically. I don't know how to handle this problem of psychos getting their hands on guns.

But I do believe that so many of us being psychos can be traced in large part back to our government being run by psychos, especially any agencies involved in national "defense".

Trickle down economics doesn't work, but trickle down mental illness is an actual thing.