"Yet the status quo keeps marching us down this blood-stained path. Little more than a month has passed since the Vegas tragedy. Lawmakers have discussed banning the kind of “bump stocks” the Vegas killer employed, but have done little else."

And the gun enthusiasts would prefer that we continue to waste our time pecking around the edges of the problem, endless discussing the definition of an "assault rifle" and defending semiautomatics by showing how a highly trained expert can fire and reload a revolver almost as fast.

We need to address root causes.  Just as digital computers facilitate rapid mathematical calculations, the fundamental facilitator of mass-shooting atrocities is semiautomatic weapons with removable magazines.  They allow the average person to become a mass murderer with minimal training or practice.

Therefore, the future sale of semiautomatic weapons and those with removable magazines should be largely limited to the military and law-enforcement agencies.