We've seen disaster coming and done almost nothing. If we continue to do nothing, we are going to see it again and again. In the wake of the Columbine High School massacre in Colorado in 1999, there were efforts to raise the stakes against people who make it possible for juveniles to get weapons. That quickly died in a Republican-led Congress totally cowed by the gun lobby, which ignores the lethal repercussions of widespread handgun availability. It is a stupid canard.
Guns do kill people - needlessly.
There are 65 million handguns in circulation in United States. It is time to start holding their makers, sellers and possessors more accountable for who uses them. At a minimum, parents with impressionable or possibly disturbed children should know that they will be held directly accountable for any weapons- related violence that their children commit. In Santee, Calif., as in other school shootings, the guns were said to be under lock. It's obvious that safety measures were nowhere near good enough.