Richard Cohen: The debacle of gun control – The Washington Post, The Washington Post Published: January 14

All across the nation in recent days, political leaders have declared their intention to rein in guns, but all they have done actually is signal defeat. They have proposed this or that marginal program — something about magazines, something about bullets, something about background checks, something about assault rifles and maybe, just to be truly silly, something about mental health, as if the crazed shooter can be easily Rorschached. … All this and nothing about the core problem, which is handguns. They have remained out of bounds although they account for the vast majority of the 100,000 or so annual shootings — an astounding 1 million gun deaths since 1968. …

[T]he Second Amendment is more strictly interpreted than even the First. You can’t yell fire in a crowded theater, but you can bring a gun into it.

Richard Cohen: The debacle of gun control – The Washington Post