Guns

   The head of the National Rifle Association keeps insisting that "law abiding citizens will not accept blame for gun violence." True enough. But who's asking them to? The issue is violence, using guns, and one way to reduce the violence is to reduce the guns.
   Another NRA claim is that "the only way to stop a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun." Therefore, the reasoning goes, we need more guns for more good guys. Equally valid reasoning, however, is that we need fewer guns in the hands of fewer bad guys.
   Or we could use the simplistic solution from early B movie westerns -- have all the good guys wear white hats.
   As for the issue of assault rifles, they are what the label says -- assault weapons, not for defense or hunting.