>>>>>You can have gun laws (background checks and registration) implemented in just a few months and start seeing results quickly.
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>>>>SNIP
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>>>>What results would you expect to see?
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>>>A lot of injuries from politicians throwing out their glad-hand while patting themselves on the back or kicking themselves for not timing their jump on the bandwagon, a big profit boost for dealers who specialize in arming the paranoid, and a resounding "whatever" from people who are pretty sure "gun control" means not letting the MAC 10 rise up on you when hosing it out the window of a moving car in Compton.
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>>Like you've been to Compton.
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>Only to drive through (you'll forgive the expression) but I've been to more than few places that make Compton look like Lake Forest :-)

You probably have. I worked for over a year at Ralph's HQ, which was not in a bad part of Compton, and lived across the street from the ocean in Redondo Beach, so it was not rough.

You have a saying about strong men doing what is necessary so the rest of us can sleep at night. Or something like that. That was very much in my mind watching "Zero Dark Thirty." What a great movie.

Speaking of sleep, I need some. The Blackhawks have been wrecking my sleep for a month. They closed out the Minnesota Wild tonight, four games to one. Now it gets a lot tougher with San Jose. They are one of the few teams in the league who can skate with the Hawks. Speed kills.