So the gun control argument is refreshed anew because some crazy bastard executed a plan to shoot a whole bunch of people.
We should not let people buy semi-automatic weapons. We should not let people buy automatic weapons. Whatever. The cat’s already out of the bag. The criminals and crazies will still have them.
How about nobody has guns? You think our forefathers trusted each other when they put together the second amendment? What happens in other countries when only the government has guns?
How about everybody has guns? Then we can all start one big Civil War because we hate each other.
Look, the issue isn’t the guns. It’s the people. Humans have some fundamental issues that few seem to be arguing about. We act like animals. Not all of us, but most of us a lot of the time. Some of us get even worse. Animals don’t shoot each other and then kill themselves.
So why is it that few are arguing that point? Is it preordained? Is it too hard to change people? Is it easier just to take away the guns and other rights of the individual? Where do we stop?
Any side you look at, it’s voting rights, women’s rights, gun-control rights, corporate rights, right to marry, right to worship, etc.. Arguments going on about all of it. Our forefathers knew we were going to argue incessantly and even violently about all of it. Because they did, too. That’s why they set this democracy up this way.
What I want to talk about is doing the right thing. I don’t give a damn whether everybody has guns or no one has guns. It wouldn’t matter if everybody was doing the right thing.