There's a old technology phrase that applies even more so to political policy: "There's nothing temporary in IT." Enacting "temporary", knee-jerk reactionary solutions to the symptom instead of to the underlying problem doesn't do much but to give a small part of the population the warm and fuzzies for a bit by putting a superficial band-aid on the problem. There's another technology idiom that applies here, and that's "Don't throw technology at a process problem." Yes, it would be nice to close the gun show loophole, I'm all for that. However, throwing all that technology as a response to this, then saying to everyone that "we responded, we're done!" isn't a response at all. The process problem is mental health care and American society's aversion/underfunding of it (which I'm sorry to say peoples, but that ties into the universal health care debate as well)