[Michael Cantor]

Cops in front of every high school checking guns? Admiration of how the cop at the door "is VERY good with a gun" when we should be questioning why the number of gunshot deaths per year, per capita in the States is utterly out of synch with every other country?

Janice has it right, Tim, and so do association after association of mayors and police chiefs. We have to control the spread of guns, access to guns, and the type of guns available. Military assault rifles and high capacity magazines, and instant access to firearms without a background check at gun shows should be banned at once. Yes, it's complicated - and there are millions of them already out - and we need a massive education program - and we also need elected representatives who are not afraid of the NRA - but the alternate approach (encourage more citizens to carry guns) is sick, sick, sick, wrong, wrong, wrong. There is a massive difference between guns intended for hunting and marksmanship, and guns whose only function is to KILL other people - and between societies which do or do not make that distinction - and it's time that we stepped back and understood as a nation what kind of society we really want to be.