General Discussion

...I have always believed it would serve this nation to have strong gun control laws. Possibly I am biased too because I grew up with a mother whose go-to for solving relationship problems was to dig out her hand gun. Didn't matter the relationship, her son-in-law, husband, even her own daughter would be threatened with a gun to their head if they didn't do what she said.

No. Crazy people are in abundance. Unfortunately, so are guns. But the Uvalde murders finally put to rest the "good guy with a gun" theory, so I do have hope that we will change the gun laws. There might be a lot of violence before we succeed, but we will see major change in my lifetime.

I agree, the cynicism doesn't serve the agenda of any American who wants to see change in this area or any advances in policy that protects democracy. But it serves someone's agenda, for sure.