Many are lamenting that things should have been done differently. But it seems to me that in the movie attack almost any different laws or procedures would have lead to more deaths.

Some compare guns with cell phone deaths. Gun advocates wonder why there isn't equal dread of the massive increase in highway deaths and injury due to cellphone and texting while driving. Outlawing hand-held cell phones while driving just increased cell phone use,
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I am hoping that there is a window of opportunity to discuss the issues that civilization is making more pressing in a way we can compromise and solve our problems. I would like to see a panel with NRA members on it. To be honest, I believe that single issue voters are a problem made worse of late since most others are disgusted with politics and those who plan to reluctantly vote for a lesser evil are more and more being inclined to end up not voting at all.

Before this attack and after, there have been gun deaths that such as in Wisconsin that are easier to blame the NRA for. Guns keep getting easier to handle and arcades and simulators more accurate. Someday something will give. Colorado is an opportunity for the gun lobby to be on board the way the farm lobby was when it went along with larger chicken cages. Obama is a skilled mediator. His present job of Commander-in-Chief doesn't highlight his skills. But it is a tremendous opportunity for those who disagree with him to work with him if they decide they want to.

James Holmes without being able to get a massive amount of ammunition, he wouldn't have jammed his semi-automatic. Some gun owners stated they wished others were armed in that movie theater. But there was teargas and he had on heavy armor. Others with guns would have delayed James Holmes from going to his car for a second automatic, and it might have confused the police and some of the panicking movie goers into falsely trying to deal with several terrorists, stampeding in competing directions.

If gun sales were kept track of, Holmes turning his tape machine into a timer to turn on top volume, a break in by the police would have led to the first responder being hurt, a massive follow-up and then the entire apartment building blowing up. NRA members maybe should push their organization to look a little more conciliatory. James Holmes was unhappy that he had played by all the rules and got top grades, but no employer would hire someone who answered yes and no without ever any chit-chat, and top grades didn't help him get a date. Maybe if the college job counselor worked with his shrink he would have had a job on his computer.

Why when apprehended at the theater did he tell of his bobby-trapped apartment? To prevent the police from illegally torturing him to tell of any third attack planned. Though Congress and the States would have been willing to be up all night to quickly pass a Constitutional Amendment allowing his torture. Thankfully now a road need not be traveled.

Maybe all new cars could be equipped with lifeline emergency phones that charge $2 a minute for non emergency calls, where every call could be explained as an emergency as long as they are few and tend to be short. And some kind of monthly fee for gun owners who want the details of their purchases to be private, the funds would be earmarked for gun victims. Insurance companies might offer special rates for cars equipped with cell phone emergency phone features.

Holmes was one man, but al Qaeda likes to attack movies, sports viewing events and non-militant worship services. Holmes rampage can help us feel some solidarity to the Muslim victims when movies and music stations are bombed in Somalia. Unlike the shooting of Rep. Giffords this incident doesn't have to lead to polarization. Let's get a panel of experts on both sides of gun and privacy issues together in a productive environment.

James Holmes only somewhat successful massive massacre is a real opportunity to try to solve not further polarize our problems. Let's get moving before more polarizing events take hold of our consciousness.

By Richard Kane