NRA AND NO SIMPLE SOLUTIONS...

The National Rifle Association on Tuesday said it was prepared to offer "meaningful contributions" to ensure that events such as the massacre of 20 children and 6 adults at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., "never happen again." Never happen again? America will have in the next four years - going on past figures - 48,000 gun related deaths. That is around the number of US deaths in Vietnam. There are no simple solutions. When the right to bear arms was enshrined in the American Constitution, no one then could have imagined the deadly power of modern weaponry. Making a start by removing battlefield type weapons from the streets might make some feel better, but sadly I doubt if the desired outcome will be forthcoming without a host of other measures; and although you can't legislate for mentality, doing nothing at all can no longer be an option.