Another active shooter in MD.

[Rev. Rye]

All this says to me is that there are 72 million people who don't have a reason to own a gun.
Take their guns away and what would happen? Nothing.
Take their cars away and what would happen? Nothing?

Well, there are hunters (I have an uncle in Wisconsin who's one of them) and (a bit less defensible) people who use it more as a security blanket that just happens to be volatile and capable of killing people, keeping it on the off chance that a criminal who could do them harm could be deterred from doing so by the gun (preferably, they would hope that the mere sight of the gun would scare them into submission and not just go in guns a-blazing, and I say this is a bit less defensible because, well, the scenario they mention is very rare.)

Another thing to note: of those 72 million gun owners, about 7.7 million actually own half of the guns in America. I suspect they might be the ones to look out for.

Take their guns away and nothing would happen? Whenever someone in Congress proposes a law to restrict gun purchases (or even gun accessory purchases) and the NRA goes into action, doing their hardest to make sure the bill in question doesn't pass, and on the off chance that it's passed into law, they make sure that there's no money allocated to enforce it. Laws that allow for taking guns away from people exist, but they apply only to convicted felons or people law enforcement consider a threat to themselves and others (and it can only happen if judge consents to it within 24 hours of the original request). And guess what? The NRA still fights against it tooth and nail. The Republican Party may not actually have a vested interest in keeping these mass shootings going, but the NRA suits who pay our Congressmen (in some cases, more than American tax dollars) do almost certainly do, and if they don't, they do a really bad job of acting otherwise.

You can see why there's very little chance of anything actually being done to stop these massacres from happening, especially when the party in control of all branches of the government is in their pockets, right?