I contemplated this question while deer hunting, and it seems to me that Americans must be willing to submit to two limitations if we want to curb gun violence. We jealously guard individual rights in our country, which partly explains our greatness. We ought to curb, however, the right to purchase guns of mass destruction, and we ought to curb privacy rights for the mentally ill. Because they are hyper-ideologically driven, the NRA and the ACLU will fight for neither curb to occur, so both will share in the guilt of worsening violence.