Why is it so hard to talk about guns in America?

JDN 2456279 EDT 18:57.

 

The Connecticut school shooting, which you've no doubt heard plenty about already, is but the most recent in a long series of wanton shooting massacres that have been occurring in the United States for just about as long as the United States has existed. Thousands of people have died this way.

And no, this is not inevitable. In fact, most countries don't have this problem at all. The US is an outlier in the First World in terms of its homicide rate and especially...