Your editorial of December 4, 2015, had to just the right headline: “How much bloodshed will it take?” You gave us a pretty good case for confiscation when you stated: “What they have in common is guns.” We realize that we can never identify all the mental cases or jihadists abroad in the land, but we could make it a federal crime for anyone other than law enforcement or military to possess an assault rifle or handgun. Period. Give everyone 30 days to turn in such murder weapons to the local sheriff. After that, “ Carry a gun, go to jail”. Rifles and full length shotguns, of course, would be exempt. But law enforcement would be given the authority to stop and question any person of suspicious appearance, and keep this authority in place until all the murder weapons are gone, removed and destroyed.