First they blame guns. Not a gun’s fault, it is the shooter. So they blame the shooter, but it is not their fault, they are mentally ill. So they blame the parents for not seeing the problem. But then they often don’t have parents or are living on their own so they blame social media. Which means; we are all guilty of not seeing it happen before it happens. So in the end when all are guilty, no one is punished and no one is to blame. And the wheel spins around some more, where everyone in the circular firing squad blames someone else. Nice, but it solves nothing. Gun crimes are not based on legislation, little or lots, it is based on enforcement. And that depends on popular whims of society and those are fleeting. People will forget each massacre in turn as other things grab the news and people’s attention and so gun crimes will be left aside, until the next massacre. The one common denominator is for all gun crimes is not mental illness, gun laws or parental influence. The one thing all gun crimes have in common? Guns. Limit the number and remove them from the hands of people and you have a more perfect union. The lack of guns in Japan does not mean there is no crime, or there is no violence. It means there is no gun crime. Switzerland has loads of guns in every household. Or does it?  In Switzerland all males are in the army. They have a fully automatic weapon in their house, ever house with an adult male and that is most of them. Yet low gun crime. Why? Because those who are issued a gun are also tested for mental fitness and reliability. They are indoctrinated by 2 years in the military service where they are drilled and drilled again on gun safety. Every single day they are force to show respect to their weapon and punished harshly for any infractions, as they should be. After two years of this training, they are no more likely to go against that sort of training and discipline then they are to learn to fly by simply not hitting the ground, (as Douglas Adam’s might phrase it). In the USA, if you are lucky, they have had a fire arms safety course and that is a big if. Without proper screening, background checks and waiting period laws to reduce spur of the moment events, there can be no safety. Without positive action to reduce and collect guns from the population and reduce the overwhelming amount of firearms held in private hands, the next school shooting is mere hours away. Somewhere right now, some kid is talking to himself while stroking an assault weapon how he is going to “Make them pay!” He is going to “Show them all.” And the worst thing is this. It is not even a guess or mere speculation that this is going to happen. It is. Period. And there is not, nothing, we can do about it. We can do a lot right now. There are many things we could do about it. But we won’t do a darn thing. So how many more will the next lone wolf kill? How many more young lives will be killed because no one has the courage to do anything about it? Making it easier for mentally ill people and people on the terrorist watch list to own guns is not the exception of politic action. It is the norm. This is no longer the options but the features of American gun Violence It is the normal for Washington. Keep that in mind as we bury another 17 dead, forgotten tomorrow for the next mass shooter’s kill count will be higher or more shocking or will it be just fresher?