Stephan:   This social psychosis over guns has got to be resolved. The actual death figures are beyond outrageous; I don't have a strong enough adjective for the reality. Today, since 1 January the police in the U.S. have shot and killed 865 men, women, and children. Mostly though Black men. Twenty seven percent of these people had established mental health issues. But that pales when measured against the total of people made dead by guns. As this report states, from the inception of the country in 1776, including the Revolutionary War up and going up until the first of this year, 2015, that's 239 years, the total number of men and women killed in military action by guns is 656,397 plus. In just a bit over a tenth of that, 25 years, 1989 to 2015, 836,290  people have been killed by guns inside the borders of the U.S., a supposedly peaceful country. This is the description of social insanity. Everytime I run stories about this gun death epidemic I get emails claiming the purpose of the 2nd Amendment is to assure an armed citizenry fighting off a military assault. I think this is a gun wet dream, and I ask you to consider Syria, where precisely that situation is going on. Would you like to turn the U.S. into Syria. I suggest there are other ways to solve problems than civil war. Finally, let me say once again: I have nothing against private gun ownership. It is the psychotic culture and behavior that has grown up around guns with which I am concerned. No other country suffers from this mental illness, and like any mental health problem an inability and unwillingness to talk meaningfully about the problem is a symptom of the problem.