Big Guns Are a Seemingly Permanent Feature of American Life

The game industry was no match for the legislation that ultimately banned “Jarts,” the lawn game of the late 20th Century, a cross between horseshoes and darts, when a tragic accident took the life of a child.

The gun industry, by contrast, has proven that it can withstand any and all pressure brought against it to limit the carnage associated with civilians, some of them mentally ill, in possession of weapons of war.

Americans are furious, but there isn’t a goddamned thing we can do about it.