The shitty thing about the gun debate is any real change is going to involve real change. Real change is going to involve serious tragedy. Maybe a little racism besides. Should the Zetas cartel mow down a busload of white school kids, there will be gun reform. Barring that, though, we're gonna get window dressing.

Statistically, guns are twice as likely to be used in suicides as murders or accidental shootings. On average, 30 people per day are murdered with a gun. That's 90 people dead, every single day, without a single national headline. If we want to change those statistics, we're going to need some serious restrictions on firearms. The top line mass shooting stuff grabs headlines but from a "total suffering" standpoint, the headline would have to be "mass shooting in Orlando raises daily death toll by 50%".

THAT is the level of reform we need: the kind that recognizes that dozens of people die needlessly every single fucking day and makes it really hard to get a gun.

You need a hunting permit every goddamn season. Have Fish'n'Game sell firearms permits, and let every sporting goods store stand as a buyback point for the the Feds to give you Kash for Killers. If they can get a 2002 Saturn off the streets surely they can throw some cash at a fuckin' AK-47.

Behold. Now it's a stimulus program.