Controlling gun violence...

Americans tend to snicker at or criticize our Canadian gun laws, but you have to admit we don't have the kinds of mass killings that regularly happen in the U.S.A. and there's a reason for that. First of all, we restrict gun ownership, and attach conditions to possession and use of firearms, and secondly, we don't have a firearms industry nor an N.R.A. calling the shots on policy decisions that benefit themselves but nobody else. 

We've been all over the Second Amendment issue, and once again, I have to say that the founding fathers had absolutely no way of anticipating today's world in which any nut with the money can walk into a gun show and buy something that can start a neighborhood war. And once again, let me say that the Second Amendment was designed to enable the citizens of your newly formed nation to defend themselves against foreign invaders (read: The British) in case those foreigners tried to take possession of their land. Any intelligent interpretation of that Second Amendment, bearing in mind the context of the time in which it was created, would have to reach the conclusion that it was never primarily intended to allow the general population to run around with concealed weapons for the purpose of killing off each other. It was intended as a national defense initiative. Any other interpretation of it is a misunderstanding or a misdirection of its intended purpose. And don't let the NRA tell you otherwise.