But the encroachments remain. Any attempt to ensure that Kamal's heinous act can never be repeated will haunt us long after the memory of Kamal is gone. A better national database to make sure newcomers like Kamal can't buy guns means an end to privacy for all of us. It also means a convenient federal record of who does and doesn't have guns. More laws can't make us safe from the tragedies that are the inevitable result of freedom, and of living around other people.
Life is real, life is uncertain, life is inevitably unsafe.
Measures to make it safe at all costs come with dangers of their own.