We would do the young victims of the Newtown shootings no honor by frantically enacting futile restrictions on freedom. It may be satisfying to do something, but two things ought to be kept in mind.
I am a gun owner. I own rifles, pistols and shotguns and have for many, many years. I use them to shoot game, clay pigeons and the occasional target and can.
Several issues back we published an editorial about gun violence and we said that there was a disagreement about what the opinion should be and therefore didn’t really express one.
So much for the “Grand Bargain” — or at least for the not-so-grand gutting of Social Security and Medicare that the “very serious” thought-leaders of Washington political and media circles have always found so appealing.
