We don’t cover politics here at Pencil Storm, but the ongoing bloodbath of mass shootings that only happens in the U.S. of A. isn’t politics: It’s ignorance vs progress; Life vs death; Good vs evil. Anyway, we are aren’t going to bore you with the piles of objective facts documenting our country’s disastrous gun control policy or lack thereof. However, we thought this quote by Thomas Jefferson featured in the Southeast Portico of his Memorial is worth considering. - Colin

“I am not an advocate for frequent changes in laws and constitutions, but laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of the human mind. As that becomes more developed, more enlightened, as new discoveries are made, new truths discovered and manners and opinions change, with the change of circumstances, institutions must advance also to keep pace with the times. We might as well require a man to wear still the coat which fitted him when a boy as a civilized society to remain ever under the regimen of their barbarous ancestors.” - Thomas Jefferson, July 12, 1816