I think it's safe to say that mass shootings pose a gigantic threat to national security.
Safe storage and child access prevention laws are critical steps as we seek to reduce the occurrence of accidental shootings and suicides involving guns.
There's been an enormous awakening, and I think recognition that the mass shootings we saw in Sandy Hook and other places are very related to the shootings we see every day in our cities.
Arguments that we will never stop all shootings by restricting access to such weapons fails to account for our strong and common desire at least to stop many of them - or any of them.
Police departments are under enormous political pressure to hire based on race, despite existing efforts to recruit minorities, on the theory that doing so will decrease police shootings of minorities.
The persistent belief that we are living through an epidemic of racially biased police shootings is a creation of selective reporting.
How many more school shootings do we need before we start talking about this as a social problem, and not merely a random collection of isolated incidents?