 I'm sick to death of fellow liberals wringing their hands and whimpering about gun violence in one breath then conceding that nothing can be done in the next. We heard these same tired arguments against reforms involving wearing seat belts, smoking in public, school yard bullying, date rape and a host of other destructive behaviors that had been accepted for decades in our culture. Those arguments include: It's a right that has to be respected, it's too widespread to be stopped, the forces against reform are too strong or too well-funded.