“I think people get hung up with this notion there’s a silver bullet, for lack of a better phrase, that there’s this one thing that’s going to stop every crime, but it’s not. It is that combination, or the layering of these things that will make it more difficult for, you know, the one person that is, you know, deranged and, you know, does not have any respect for human life to get their hands on the guns. We need to slow down the pipeline. Clog it up, slow it down. Make it more difficult for people who don’t mean well for our communities to get their hands on guns. So for people to say, if you expand the background checks, that’s not going to make a difference, it only impacts people who legally own guns. If we can make it more difficult to get these guns on the street, we can slow down the ability and reduce the ability for people who, you know, that are acquiring these illegal guns to get them and create safer communities.” – Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake on Hardball [via realclearpolitics.com]