Your Twitter buddies aside, there's no serious political conversation about banning all guns or repealing the Second Amendment.

Neither is needed to prevent the massive number of gun deaths in America. And no, arguing that tougher laws don't 100% prevent gun violence isn't a meaningful argument. Laws aren't acceptable only if they work 100% of the time.

Britain and Australia pretty much ended most private gun ownership and their rates of gun violence fatalities are significantly lower.

But Canada is far from banning guns, but still has a fraction of gun deaths compared to America, and that's a reasonable model for America to follow.

Every time we get another mass shooting, you don't see calls for banning guns, here, you see calls to regulate them, overwhelmed by arguments that gun violence shouldn't be politicized, an absurd statement, followed by any attempts at national regulation getting ranked by absolutists who will accept no kind of regulation.

There aren't two equal sides both being ornery and absurd. Stop trying to claim there is, because all that does is allow you to shrug your shoulder and move on from yet another mass killing.