The obligatory Sandy Hook post

So the United States is currently mourning the loss of some twenty of its citizens in one of the worst shootings since the Virginia Tech massacre a few years back, but what does it all mean?

To me, it means that the United States is in no better place in terms of gun control than it was when the VA Tech shooting happened. When that gunman opened fire in a college classroom, for weeks the media covered the story intently and our politicians rallied for tighter gun control. The result? The shooting in Sandy Hook this past week.

This time around, Congress and President Obama- who I support- are pressing for an assault weapons ban. This is all good and dandy, its absurd as it is that assault weapons have been legal since the ban expired several years ago. However, it is not going to do anything remotely like what is necessary: to approach the heart of the gun problem in the US.

Eighty seven. That is the number of people who die from gun deaths on average every day in this country, it is more than almost any other nation. The problem clearly is not that there is too easy access to assault weapons; the problem is that there is too easy access to weapons in general.

While the philosophy coined in Blitz era Britain is true that 'the bomber will always get through' (meaning that with such a large population, there will always be crazy murderers who get through our defenses) the reality is that if we are not doing everything we can, we are not doing enough. To prevent another Sandy Hook, the course of action as I see it is simple: rethink the second amendment.