The witness still did not respond. Guns are still high on the national agenda, as Clinton's gun-law reforms, proposed in the emotional wake of the Columbine shootings, draw praise, and some fire. I have noticed that other federal agencies have taken bold, if less-heralded, steps to stay gun violence this week. The agency launched an investigation of 21st Century Fax, a British company that allegedly sent an unsolicited fax polling Americans on their feelings about the need for new gun control legislation. Move to Venezuela.
Guns become the silent scape goat.
In our want to punish, we beg the help of our law makers. Law makers then must do what they can to punish the ones responsible. They do this by the only means they have at their disposal, with laws. The rhetoric then ensues. All attention gets drawn to the debate, lines are drawn, sides taken.