Too much firepower?

Now that we’ve “lost out” on Amazon moving to the Denver metro area, why not just block off 12 major streets and two lanes each on Interstate 25 and Interstate 70, so it would feel like Amazon was here?

I am so glad that Amazon has decided to go elsewhere. So many people just want more, more, more. They think it’s all about the money. I am thinking about the quality of life and more traffic, and more crowding can’t be a better way of life. I have called Colorado home for more than 95 years. I used to take the streetcar to Denver to work. It was so much easier than taking the train now, and fighting crowds everywhere. To me, the quality of life is more important than all the money. Thanks Amazon for staying away.

The fundamental problem with gun violence is there are too many guns in circulation.

Imagine two identical houses in the same neighborhood with similar families. Imagine further that one house has 10 guns lying about and the other has none. Which house is more likely to have a shooting resulting from an angry confrontation? Which house is more likely to see a child accidentally discharge a gun? Which will experience a suicide by firearm?

The probability of someone being shot raises in proportion to the number of guns in circulation. The obvious solution is to reduce the number of guns. Until we can find ways to address the pure quantity of guns, while still respecting the Second Amendment, we are just nibbling around the edges of the problem.