Gun culture in the U.S.

The book review section of the most recent Sunday New York Times contained two reviews of books about our gun culture.  One Nation Under Guns:  How Gun Culture Distorts Our History and Threatens Our Democracy by Dominic Erdozain (Crown, $28) discusses how the courts and popular opinion have misinterpreted the 2nd Amendment.  

The second book by Jonathan M. Metzi entitled What We’ve Become:  Living and Dying in a Country of Arms  (Norton: $29.99) looks at the gun culture as a public health issue.  

The typical answer to the gun problem is the U.S. is that people should arm themselves to protect themselves.  By now it should be fairly obvious that that solution isn’t working.  One definition of insanity is that you do the same thing over and over, but you expect different results.