The problem's much larger than just the ease of buying a gun. Hell, even if a lunatic could be prevented from getting the gun, he can still buy the ammo legally and without any license or background check. Seems like just about every 10 year old boy learns how to make a "zip gun" from a piece of pipe and a rubber band. Just add the cartridge. Or shell--shotguns are really easy to improvise.
I'm not sure Rob ever read the article I linked to. He'd have found that the online weapons market it describes is totally black and has no known location. In other words, it isn't subject to US gun laws anyway. The scope of the problem is now international.
I think it's much too late to close that barn door. If we survive this epoch of easy access to cheap weapons, Darwin suggests we're going to be some mean futhermuckers in a century or so.
Forget all those sci-fi movies about the murderous aliens. We have met that enemy, and they are us.
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