No question about it, our 20,000 gun control laws are keeping people from having guns, making them easy prey; thousands are killed with knives and other weapons, and a lot of those could have defended themselves if they had been armed. OTOH, a restricted law like the one proposed here, Senators and Congresspersons, is a step in the right direction. I would vote to pass that, weak though it might be, and then lobby for extending it.