Good Lord !
Are at least some of the people of the United States finally waking up to the lunacy of allowing free access to fire arms to pretty well anyone who asks for one ?
While the National Rifle Association continues to prattle on about "rights" under the Constitution, and conflates any form of gun control with an attack on the "rights" of the people, a movement has started which has prompted several very well known companies to announce that they have stopped their support of the organisation. The car rental companies, Hertz and Enterprise, software firm Symantec and a number of others have decided that they'd rather fall in behind calls to limit the availability of guns than see their profits fall.
Of course, this is early days and everything might settle down and return to 'normal' in a few weeks, 'normal' meaning that the regular shootings will continue. With President Trump seeming to be firmly on the side of more, rather than less, guns and suggesting that the solution to the perennial problem is to give guns to school and college teachers, it's perfectly possible that there will be a true massacre in the not too distant future. Nonetheless, it appears that some in the United States are showing signs of sanity at last.
Let's hope it's catching.
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