“We have been running an experiment of a kind that no sane ethicist would allow: what happens when, in a country large enough to contain every imaginable kind of crazy, from the inward-turning, maniac sort to the outward-turning, politicized kind, you make sure that almost anyone can readily buy any kind of gun?” Adam Gopnik on our shared blame for the shooting in San Bernardino.

+ “To gun enthusiasts, mass shootings are not arguments against guns but for them. The rise in mass shootings is only convincing both sides that they’re right, causing them to dig in further.” From Vox: Why mass shootings don’t convince gun owners to support gun control.

+ A gun industry trend: Mass shootings are good for business.

+ Chesterfield County Sheriff Jay Brooks on a recent discovery of a man’s stash of more than 5,000 weapons: “This has completely changed our definition of an ass-load of guns.”

+ “Get a gun. The gun was power. Get a gun. The gun was acceptance. Get a gun. The gun was his only chance.” It turns out I’m here because of a gun: The Power of the Gun.