I admire his recovery from heroin addiction but he hasn’t thought things through. Heroin was illegal but that didn’t prevent him from almost ODing (by his own admission) on multiple occasions. If drug laws don’t prevent addicts from buying drugs, why would gun laws prevent criminals from obtaining them?
"But it's for the children!"
Excellent point, and one I will repeat to the appropriate people.
I grew to dislike James Taylor over the years. The last straw was some years ago when a girlfriend bought tickets to a Taylor concert and asked me to go. Taylor put on a pretty good show, except when he did "Fire and Rain", his best and most popular song-- he deliberately murdered it. To me it was proof that he was a childish, spiteful bastard.