This hits the nail on the head. Let's get rid of the word gun control and substitute gun safety for a start. This seems to be a core idea advanced in your article. I think everyone's for gun safety.

98% percent of gun violence against unarmed civilians is perpetrated by men in the US. Additionally a marker of this kind of male violence is often violence against women. The question then becomes is it social conditioning or is it inherent in male biology? I don't think we've been brave enough to ask those questions and try and deal with them.

As you know I support your idea that in order to address many fundamental issues, including gun safety we need to break the US up into much smaller units of governance. The impetus for this has to come from both Republican and Democratic governors. They in fact hold the political and economic clout to begin this conversation. A large federation of divergent states with different economies and cultural and political beliefs doesn't work anymore. Plus it's based on minoritarian government.

We had Sandy Hook in CT and our governor adopted excellent gun safety laws as a result. In New Zealand within 72 hours of their synagogue massacre, they had banned assault rifles.

Texas unfortunately has that sycophant governor Greg Abbott who has created an image of himself as a freedom loving, gunslinging, cowboy. He had the audacity at his press conference to compare the school shooting to gun deaths in Chicago. Anyone with any sense could see he was comparing apples to oranges.

My advice anyway if you live in Texas and can afford to, is pick up your children and run from there as fast as you can. Although the shooting recently in Buffalo shows nowhere in the US is safe without attention, as we have done in CT, to strong gun safety laws.