Guns are fun, but need to be controlled.  When guns kill people, it's FINAL!  No do over! Not toys!  Guns kill people.

"Why Christians Must Support Gun Control"
By RICHARD PARKERNOV. 11, 2017

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/11/opinion/sunday/christians-support-gun-control.html

"As in many small Texas towns, the center of Sutherland Springs is the church. And if anything stands out about the worst mass murder in the history of Texas, which took place here last Sunday, killing 26 and wounding at least 20, it is this: a simple, white wooden sanctuary with the peaked roof, next to an unkempt field by a lonesome two-lane road.

Now they are going to tear it down, bulldozing it from the South Texas plain, as if doing so could remove the sacrilege of killing defenseless people during a Sunday sermon. This is what America’s response to mass homicide has come to. We don’t remove the killing machines that have put tens of thousands of Americans in their graves or hospital beds in this century, but we do demolish the First Baptist Church that has stood at this lonely crossroad for nearly a century."

Conclusion.

"Mr. Villalba [Jason Villalba of Dallas, a prominent Republican state legislator] wants new gun restrictions on the table: “There needs to be common-sense gun control reform in Texas.” The Dallas Morning News, the state’s largest newspaper, quickly endorsed the plan: “Our goals ought to be simple. The most deadly kind of weapons should be harder to get.”

All the people of the Abrahamic faiths share the same duty — to protect the innocent. The Jewish bystander is to rescue a person in peril. Islam requires the protection of all innocent lives. I fear that if we fail in this, bulldoze our churches and let the machines of war and profit win over faith, then God will never forgive us. For that would be the worst sin of all."

As a civilized society, America MUST control and manage gun sales, ownership, and use!  It's NOT a mental health problem, it's a GUN PROBLEM!  If every insane person had a gun we would still not see as many mass shootings as we have today!

PERIOD!  The frenzy and fear over mass shootings, the last being in the Texas church, is already cooling to no action except thoughts and prayers.

"To Pass Gun Control, We Need To Act Like The NRA"

November 07, 2017     Tracy MayorTwitter

http://www.wbur.org/cognoscenti/2017/11/07/gun-control-sutherland-springs-tracy-mayor

"In the hours and days following October's mass shooting in Las Vegas — the nation’s deadliest — my inbox filled up with messages from gun control advocacy groups I’d donated to in the past. Among the emails were messages from groups like MomsRising.org, Sandy Hook Promise, Everytown for Gun Safety, Avazz, Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America, as well as dispatches from politicians like Kirsten Gillibrand, Chris Murphy and my own congressman, Seth Moulton."

More..

"As the nation’s elected officials once again call for thoughts and prayers, I’m sending my karma to the many dedicated, likely exhausted and dispirited leaders of our well-intentioned gun control advocacy groups.

My friends: Get a room, hold a summit, pick a name, choose a platform that’s so easy to understand a second-grader could write it in chalk on the playground asphalt."