To the editor: 'Support for the Second Amendment' is a smoke screen

Once again we hear the cries for our government leaders to do something to quell the gun violence in this country. Most will focus on efforts to keep the guns out of the hands of the mentally ill, terrorists, etc. These cries will be heard in spite of the fact that psychological research tells us that mental health professionals, or police officials, are not very good at predicting who will commit either one-on-one or mass gun violence.