Gun control, as it is commonly described, is literally impossible. And I don't mean literally

as literally as commonly used.

Welcome back to another T-R-X talk. It is far, far too beautiful a day to record this podcast inside.

So apologies if the audio quality is a little lacking, but we're enjoying springtime in Tennessee.

And I have been thinking about gun control, not just because we're in Tennessee, but obviously

it's a conversation that continues on and on and on.

But I've been thinking about the idea that gun control is essentially impossible, and there's several reasons for that.

The first is that in the United States at least, guns are common.

Now technically guns are very common around the world.

There's only small patches of the world where guns are uncommon, and the only guns that are

uncommon are privately owned guns. But pretty much everywhere on the planet, where there are people,

there are guns. And we've seen throughout history places where privately

owned guns were very rare, but then something weird happened, you know, politically or culturally,

and suddenly all the guns that were common, but not in private hands, were suddenly in private

hands. Now, they weren't necessarily spread evenly across

private hands, but guns do tend to change hands. But let's talk about just America for a moment,

because obviously that's where I live and most of the listenership lives. And there's a lot of

privately owned guns in the United States. I want to recommend to you a blog called Weapons Man.

Now, unfortunately, the author of the blog, Kevin O'Brien, passed away a few years ago,

but even though he is no longer writing, the archives of that blog are pretty fascinating stuff.

He had the best site on the internet there for a while. And in addition to

commenting on gun news of the day and researching firearms of the past, he also had some very

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