There is a lot of discussion now about what to do to prevent nuts from shooting a lot of people. Some think outlawing guns would be a good approach. But that hasn't worked in other places, since criminals and nuts don't follow the law, and if their is a demand, there will be a supply. Anther approach is to let people carry guns. That at least would limit the damage when a nut starts shooting people at random. Some people think that the presence of guns would lead to more violent confontations. That has not been the case in Texas since the law was changed to allow people to get permits to carry concealed weapons. I suppose one argument against using Texas as an example is that many people carried weapons when it was against the law. I always think of what happened in Israel a few years ago. Terrorists would carry out gun attacks against the Israeli's. The Israeli's armed themselves and started shooting back. I recall one case where three Palestinians opened fire, and Israeli civilians returned fire killing two of the Palestinians and wounding the third. The wounded man complained loudly to the news media. He said he and his friends were carrying out a legitimate attack, and the Israelis had no right to fight back. I recall he was quoted as saying, "what kind of country is this where people are carrying submachine guns." The Palestinians have shifted to suicide bomb attacks since their victims started shooting back. I suppose if we started letting everyone carry a gun, sort of like what Archie Bunker suggested to stop airliner highjacking, then the nuts might well switch to using explosives. This might slow them down to some extent since they would have to learn how to make explosives. But, I expect that there is ample information on the internet so that inteligent nuts could learn how to make explosives. Maybe it would stop the ones who are not so smart. It is also possible that nuts might switch back to swords. People no longer realize how lethal a madman with a sword can be in a crowd. I suspect there is no perfect solution to stopping someone who is determined to kill a lot of people.