Every time there’s a mass shooting in the United States , Canadians (and American liberals) tend to lament that the U.S. isn’t like the rest of the anglosphere when it comes to gun control.

In Canada ( the École Polytechnique massacre in 1989 ), in the United Kingdom ( the Dunblane primary school massacre in Scotland in 1996 ), in Australia ( the Port Arthur massacre in 1996 in Tasmania), and most recently in New Zealand ( the Christchurch mosque massacre in 2019 ), the United States’ closest peer nations have translated horror and grief into concrete policy cracking down on gun ownership.

There is no reason to think that will ever happen in the U.S., and the most frustrating thing about it, I find, is that basic unsexy gun safety in American homes could save far more child

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