[Cybercowboy]

Originally Posted by bierbelly

I'm not proposing anything except that some options should be looked at and not dismissed out of hand as a matter of course. What happened Friday was reprehensible and I think everyone can agree to that. IF there is something that might help prevent it happening again, it should be explored. Obviously, the right wing is the side which has the most experience with guns, and the only place from which a reasonably/politcally acceptable proposal of curbing gun violence might arise. Anything coming from the left is routinely dismissed as "trying to take our guns away". Is there any acceptable middle ground?

Yes, there could be a middle ground. Admit "gun-free zones" simply render the entire area a helpless-victim playground for psychopaths and we're on our way. For starters.