A no gun-control proposal to curb gun violence

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Starting tomorrow, cast a plaster mould of every person who dies in a mass shooting where they fall. Fill the mould with concrete, let it harden and leave it there.

If victims died on a roadway or on a sidewalk, build a bridge over them. If it's at a desk, move the desk so they're not in the way. If it's at a theater, shop or restaurant, put lights around the bodies so people don't trip, and if it's in a school, paint the bodies cheery colours. 

Let the bodies pile up. Let them pile in such abundance that they interfere and disrupt every aspect of life. 

Do that and then maybe, just maybe, the people who die in future mass shootings will have not, like their predecessors, died in vain. 

Yesterday, San Bernadino was the site of the 355th mass shooting this year. Fourteen more dead. It wasn't even the only mass shooting of the day. Today, nothing has changed.

Nothing will change, not until the cost is too great for everything to remain the same.