Michael McLeod
I'll make a gun control suggestion, thought it is, at present, an utterly useless one, being inspired by the past and rooted in the future.
You've all seen the western where a couple of unwashed varmints ride into town and the marshall tells them it's a peaceful place and they'll have to leave their six shooters with him afore they go off and get likkered up at miss kitty's place.
That may be a system our culture turns to in the future.
If you do any reading about limited resources and population expansion one thing that is already happening and is fixing to get a lot worse is that since, ecologically, humans beingd as the apex predator and massive resource consumers that they are, the best thing for the earth - and eventually the only way for so many of us to survive - will be to have us accumulate in population centers instead of spreading out all over the place. It's a trend that is already underway.
I can see excuding weapons from those public places - and when I say public places, I mean entire, densely populated communities. I can see cities with security and screening on their parameters as tight as our airports.
You can live there. Or you can take your chances outside the walls.
It will not happen in our lifetimes but if the current trend continues I can see people finally having had enough of the carnage. And some people will have their guns, and the gun manufacturers will have their money. And there will still be schoolchildren and gay people and country music lovers, too. But crazy people with weapons of war will no longer have such convenient opportunities to murder them en masse.
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