Sometimes doing nothing is better, even with the occasional terrible outcome. Let's ask Mandalay Bay if they would like to install metal detectors for all incoming guests, to prevent something like Sunday night. I'm pretty sure the answer would be no.

But didn't he shoot up a fruity bar? I would suspect that the NRA types might not be entirely vexed about that.

(incidentally, I thought vexed had two X's ... we use a strange language)

I understand the emotion involved by those who find these things detestable (and in some ways I sort of agree), but take a step back and look at what your prescriptions are. You're just using vague statements about gun control. Most of this stuff is already illegal. America's gun problem is more related to a culture of guns than it is any laws or lack of laws. I don't think there's any way to legislate out of this.

Do people expect this to turn into a Utopian society like The Giver where all gun crimes will disappear if we do something? Passing more laws or throwing more money at a problem rarely works. The war on drugs, education and the war on terrorism are prime examples of that fallacy. We pass laws making it illegal to drive and text. Has that caused a decrease in car accidents?

Obviously spree killings won't disappear completely. So what number is acceptable to the anti-gun crowd? One a year? One every 10 years? Every 50? We hadn't had a major hurricane hit land for over 10 years, and then we had two and people seem to forget the years in between. The point is, tragedy will always be tragic no matter when the last one occurred. And regardless of when the last one occurred, it will be a prime time for people to get on their soapbox to demand changes be made.

Do people expect this to turn into a Utopian society like The Giver where all gun crimes will disappear if we do something?

Do we care what Mandalay Bay wants?

Do we care what Mandalay Bay wants?

so now we have the govt mandating the installation of metal detectors at evey public venue?

so now we have the govt mandating the installation of metal detectors at evey public venue?

Then why did mass killings drop like a stone in Australia?

And mandatory white helmets for everyone!

Then why did mass killings drop like a stone in Australia?

Then why did mass killings drop like a stone in Australia?

GRAND SLAM!!!

Insert almost any current social problem in our country in the place of guns and the answer is the same.

But not murders in general. In Ireland, Australia and England, the gun bans either had a static effect or actually caused murder rates to increase. It goes back to the point that bad people will do bad things with whatever is available to them. And I don't think Australia is going to start banning boomerangs and machetes and dune buggies and Crocodile Dundee.

I'll take my chances against boomerangs and machetes any day of the week.

You do realize just how low the odds are of ever being near a mass shooting is?

You do realize just how low the odds are of ever being near a mass shooting is?

I'd say roughly 32 miles from where I'm sitting, so pretty good.

http://www.heyjackass.com

I said mass shootings.

I'll take my chances against boomerangs and machetes any day of the week.

Plane hijackings have essentially been eliminated via regulations(yes, that can be inconvenient at times).

Plane hijackings have essentially been eliminated via regulations(yes, that can be inconvenient at times).

We could eliminate automobile fatalities if we reduced the speed limit to 15 mph. Would people accept that tradeoff?

A little easier to control what and who gets on and off a plane with 400 people max then it is a 2700 mile country bordering two other countries and hundreds of ports on two ocean fronts with over 300 million people. And we have no-fly lists, but sadly pretty much anyone can come into our country.