Umm, wrong. ATF is very insistent that everyone who has a FFL follows all the rules. There is no gun show exception for FFLs.

“Since state borders have no impact on human activity, there is no sense in such laws. That's inexcusable.”

Well one excuse is that you happen to believe in states rights. I believe that individual states should be allowed to make laws that don't have to follow a national policy.

I'm sorry about VT but what would you change that would make a difference. Not “guns are bad” or “Gun culture is evil” but what real change would you make instead of vomiting anti gun propaganda? The obvious one is linking mental health status to firearm purchases. Of course that would mean the govt having access to peoples medical info, possible stigmatization of individuals being treated, and people not getting help because they don't want to be on any “lists”. Easy to go anti gun hard to come up with useful suggestions.

[...] if we would only grow up enough to stop revering the status quo to the point that we become blind and dear to what results.

Did you just accidently describe conservatism?

There is no reason why gun ownership rights should be incompatible with responsibility for how the guns are used and to whom they are sold.. Hunting and registering hunting guns can go hand in hand, if we would only grow up enough to stop revering the status quo to the point that we become blind and dear to what results.
The stranglehold that the NRA and other like groups have on Washington lawmakers is obscene.

We complain that Mexco is the source of drugs, but we don't care that the US is the source of guns on the streets of Mexico and Canada. What laws we have regarding background checks and registration don't apply to vendors at gun shows. That's like locking the barn door, and simultaneously knocking a huge hole in the back wall.

The crime fighting capability of tracing guns involved in crime is obstructed by some local laws keeping the relevant information from crossing local borders. Since state borders have no impact on human activity, there is no sense in such laws. That's inexcusable.

We are so busy congratulating ourselves on how great The US is that we fail to take proper note of the enormous warts all over our culture.

The mention of mental health is very apt, too. As broken as our health care ssytem is, mental health is the neglected stepchild in it.

We hail aggressive competitiveness as the source of progress, but we take no note of the detritus created in the form of a high-strung and tense populace.

Obama was right, but he didn't go far enough. He should have said that the unwillingness of national leaders to deal with national problems leads directly to some people placing guns and religion above justice.