When we have more than twice as many guns as people in this country, simple availability may become a factor. According to the CDC, in 2022, there were 48,295 firearm-related deaths in the U.S. That’s more than the number of people killed in automobiles. Obviously, it is a major problem, but statistics don’t motivate people to take action. Why do we require annual registration of cars and drivers and insurance, but don’t require them for firearms that are more dangerous?

Firearm violence is divided into three categories: homicides, suicides, and mass shootings. The first and last are what make the news, but the second is the more common form resulting in death. School shootings result in great trauma and emotional consequences regardless of the number of deaths.

What are some solutions:

We have been told that Immigration Reform, Solutions to the Climate Crisis, and Gun Violence all will be resolved on January 21st. I can’t wait to see the details. We know the general idea — break things. Get rid of the establishment, or anyone who knows what they’re doing, and do away with taxes and services. All that money just goes to deadbeats anyway. None of the generals know anything.

Social Security and Medicare have been called the third rail of politics, but the Republicans keep attacking them as “entitlements.” Forty million AARP members may have something to say about that.

Everyone keeps wondering when President Musk is going to move out of Mar-A-Largo; probably when his assistant gets tired of Elon’s ego. Only one person can be-in-charge of everything, including every detail of the lives 330+ million people.

It seems that every day that I pick up a newspaper or see a report on TV, there is a shooting somewhere in the Triangle. The records for homicides in 2023 are: