Walt Amses: Doing nothing is the problem

Editor’s note: Walt Amses is a writer and former educator who lives in Calais.
With the grim predictability of death, taxes and National Rifle Association excuses, yet another school shooting devastates a community, leaving the nation appalled and again wondering if there is any hope of stanching the bloodshed. The saturation of firearms in America — upwards of 300 million — coupled with pulling the trigger inexorably becoming just another viable problem-solving option, the hor