My belief is that making it socially unacceptable to use weapons for entertainment will, in the long run, save many more lives than changing gun laws. (By “entertainment” I mean shooting for the hell of it. I regard hunting as a serious endeavor, not light entertainment.) I used to shoot when I was a teenager decades ago. I enjoyed it. There was a zen to it – control your muscles, control your breathing. Picking up a rifle also seemed a bit like having a wild carnivore eat out of your hand. There was danger and the potential for things to go badly wrong but I had it under control. There was a rush in that. Much as I enjoyed shooting then though, I’m done. We need to renounce shooting as recreation. Guns are not toys for grown-ups. They’re machines designed to kill.