what does anyone suggest... I don't think there is much that can be done . what do gun owners suggest ?
Changing your position on civilian disarmament? :shrug:
What is this hatred you illiberals have for people defending themselves? The fact is, for all your mocking sniggering smears of the character of gun owning citizens, they use their weapons to deter literally millions of crimes per year.
When you disarm ordinary people, you turn on a green light for criminals and nuts. 'Gun control,' to employ the lefty agitprop, is the criminal/kook's best friend. This is not an opinion, it is fact. They have interviewed criminals and fear of being shot by victims is practically the only thing keeping them in check.
You never know when someone's going to crack. The liberals says, just call the police. Well, the police won't protect anybody. They'll just show up after the rampage is underway, and cower in their SWAT gear behind their tanks until it's over, see Columbine and Virginia Tech.
Allowing ordinary people the one effective means of defending themselves, owning and freely carrying guns, is the only serious choice we have if we want to stop people being slaughtered in the event a kook goes off.
The solution is not to heap on more gun restrictions to disarm civilians but to
remove them. If the criminal or kook knows he has a good chance of being shot himself, he'll be deterred in many cases. And in the ones he isn't, there's a much better chance he'll only kill one or two -- rather than one or two dozen -- before he's put down himself by an armed citizen.