Good time today, to draft a letter to my elected reps at state and national level on this gun madness.

I'm thinking these thoughts at random, after a post-Uvalde massacre that has included:

8 human beings shot in Texas,

6 in TN,

minimum 3 in Chicago,

8 in Atlanta,

8 in Oklahoma at a Memorial Day event,

3 more in the third h.s. grad party shooting in Atlanta in the past week,

while a 2nd grader brought a loaded handgun to his classroom in Sacramento,

and a ten year old has been arrested for threatening to shoot up a school in Lee County Fl,

and a one year old was shot and killed in a Pittsburgh drive-by at 2:40 pm yesterday, a Sunday. Broad daylight. All of these SINCE Uvalde. smh.

Darn right the kids are watching us adults. Always have, always will.

Raise gun purchase age to 25, after a background check that includes documented interviews with former teachers, neighbors, acquaintances, employers. Yes, this will mean your child won't be able to find a bb gun under the Christmas tree. Think toys...

No more mentally ill teenagers using someone's credit card, which apparently wasn't checked for authorized use to begin with, to be able to walk out with long guns AND ammo. Apparently the seller had zero curiousity about this. Age of 21 is too low. If the seller didn't check the credit card, he should be held co-responsible.

Any legal guardian/adult who fails to secure their weapon goes to jail minimum 30 days, job be damned. If anyone was hurt with their weapon, they become co-defendants automatically.

No limit to the numbers of guns any person or household may have, of course.

LIMIT what is available retail, gun shows, private sales, etc. We START, by banning the public availability of any weapon originally designed, intended, and used by military and law enforcement.

No more TAC-9s, M-50s, M-60s, AR-15s, M-16s;

no more handguns that hold more than nine bullets;

no public availability of clips holding multiple bullets; (Texas murdered had SEVEN 30-round clips with him; Rep Gifford's attacker had a 33-round clip.)

The Las Vegas hotel room killer carried an arsenal of long guns into a crowded hotel without bags going through any kind of a security check, and fired away from 32nd floor or whatever. Had he had NO access to long guns whatsoever, that slaughter doesn't happen.

Annual tax due on each weapon owned. Just like your vehicle, your home, your income. Money to the inevitable victim fund, which will be hard to keep filled.

If corporations can create baby food shortage, then we can create an ammo shortage as well. Why not?

Term limits for House and Senate, state and federal level. Three terms seems about right. Those currently in power regardless of party simply do not want to lose their jobs and the power and perks that go with it. Since voters keep returning numbskulls to office, it's time to establish term/life limits.

When done at the federal level, you are lifetime ineligible for lower-level govt svc of any kind. Period. For the Presidency, one lifetiime six year term. No more FDR's; no more spectre of Trumps hovering over us all. A one-generation gap for office holders, and no spousal succession. If your parent was President, you can forget it.

No more citizen tax dollars for billionares to build playpen arenas for millionaire spoiled athletes. Most cities are examples. Latest is Buffalo, currently talking about a Billion-dollar stadium.

If money from whatever source is available for that crap, then it's available for the security of every school no matter its affiliation, in every state. Locked doors and see-thru purses and banning backpacks and lockers aren't enough. CCTV, metal detectors, sole entrance/exit are all basic needs, common sense, and affordable.

None of the above should offend the NRA, whose tiring mantra continues to be don't take away our precious guns.

Well, how about we don't let anyone take away any more of our children?