George Neumayr's article on the so-called debate on guns

At The American Spectator, George Neumayr writes an article about how unserious the discussion is about gun control following the mass murder in Las Vegas on Sunday 1 Oct 2017.

He writes:

The philosophy underlying liberalism is at once totalitarian and relativistic. It proposes more government and less morality.

and

From this ethos, regnant for decades in elite circles, has come an out-of-control society in which pols reflexively respond to unspeakable tragedy by advocating more and more laws for a people whose gradual loss of virtue guarantees that they will violate them.

This reminds me of Chesterton who said something along the lines of:

When you abandon the big laws, you don't get anarchy, but lots of small laws.

I think Chesterton was writing before WWII in England, but this is appropriate for our country in this age too.

In today's Mass Readings Baruch says:

Justice is with the Lord, our God;
and we today are flushed with shame,
we men of Judah and citizens of Jerusalem,
that we, with our kings and rulers
and priests and prophets, and with our ancestors,
have sinned in the Lord's sight and disobeyed him.
We have neither heeded the voice of the Lord, our God,
nor followed the precepts which the Lord set before us.

We have forsaken the big laws, the Law of God, and been smothered with a plethora of little laws that bind us unsparingly.

Increased restrictions on guns, or licensing, of limitations on accessories will not cure the rot which pervades our society, for we are like the Jews in Exile.

Let us then do as Jesus says the people in Tyre and Sidon would have done, "repent in sackcloth and ashes."   The Lord has done great things for us, we are glad indeed.