Diane Dimond sums it up nicely.

Albuquerque Journal | States doing what Congress won’t on gun control laws By Diane Dimond / Crime and Justice

Eighteen states have passed tougher gun buyer background check laws. Nine states have adopted laws to keep guns out of the hands of known domestic abusers. …

Yes, 99.9 percent of all gun owners are responsible citizens, so it raises the question: Where are they on the issue of keeping firearms out of the hands of those who would use them for ill? To blindly accept the NRA’s age-old mantra of “We already have enough laws!” solves nothing. It leaves us powerless against the next mass shooting, the next gang carnage.

It’s easy to pooh-pooh the various suggestions about how to keep guns out of the hands of those who shouldn’t have them. Critics of change seem to think that, unless a proposal is 100 percent guaranteed to fix the gun problem in America, we should reject it.

I’ll take constitutionally sound baby steps over years of Washington’s inaction any day.

Albuquerque Journal | States doing what Congress won’t on gun control laws