The Latest Shooting Massacre

Let me preface today's blog with a comment, that I hope Grant sees.  I appreciate his comments, all of them.  Thanks, Grant.  I know you are out there keeping me on my toes!  One of the things about Lincoln that I admire is that he was willing to listen to others and, if necessary, to change his mind or, at least (as you well put it) "to clarify my thinking......"  And, the older I get, the more I realize what I don't know!

If I heard correctly, Hillary Clinton sounded off on the Oregon community college shooting.  (Yes, the shootings at any of the schools, esp, are close to home.)  All people, politicians included (And wasn't that nice of me to include politicians among people?), should be alarmed, outraged, etc.  So, that Clinton sounds off, good for her.

I think, though, that she is off base.  First, again if I heard correctly, Oregon has some of the most stringent gun control laws in the US.  No, I don't own a gun and, in fact, haven't fired one in maybe 45 years.  I just wonder what stricter laws are going to do to protect us.  Maybe they will, but somehow I doubt it.  Perhaps Clinton and others calling for them can explain to us.

I believe, too, she wants to hold gun manufacturers more accountable.  Huh?  So, someone goes on a rampage or just one shoots another (In Detroit, this AM, two more murders were reported, including one of a man found just shot dead in the middle of the street on the West Side, not too far from where I grew up.), the gun manufacturer is to be held accountable?  What if the gun that was used was stolen from another person, who legally owned it?  And I may be off base myself here, but I can't help but thinking video games (and to a lesser extent television and movies) are also culpable.  I wonder