So what about it? What about the tripe that guns don’t kill people, people kill people. Well guess what? It’s a hell of a lot easier to kill another person with a gun. You don’t hear about some madman butchering lots of people with a lead pipe, or a knife, or a rock. A gun is designed to do one thing, and one thing only: kill. Well, lucky for so many of us that they work so well.
Many of these screwballs that are killing people get their guns LEGALLY. Don’t give me that crap about only criminals having guns if there is gun control. Right now, law abiding people are getting guns and becoming criminals by slaughtering other people. Why is this okay? Why is this a time to rant about having 2nd amendment rights? Where in the hell is any talk about responsibilities?
For those who just have to have a gun because, look up the shooting statistics by country. We may be a first world country, but we have gun violence like we are in some war-torn country or under the thumb of some tin-pot dictator. I often hear that the answer is to arm more people. That sounds like a brilliant idea. Let’s take a problem and compound it. Let’s just have everybody armed so we can all blow each other away. I’m sure that wouldn’t make us more of a laughingstock of a country than we are now. It’s time to get our collective heads out of our collective behinds and actually work on reasonable restrictions for gun ownership. No one outside of the military or police needs to own an assault rifle. If you can’t see that much, then I don’t think that there is anything that me, or anyone else, can say to change your mind.