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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThe people who fight & lobby & legislate to make guns regularly available are complicit in murder
........it has happened again, bang, like clockwork, one might say: Twenty dead childrenbabies, reallyin a kindergarten in a prosperous town in Connecticut. And a mother screaming. And twenty families told that their grade-schooler had died. After the Aurora killings, I did a few debates with advocates for the child-killing lobbysorry, the gun lobbyand, without exception and with a mad vehemence, they told the same old lies: it doesnt happen here more often than elsewhere (yes, it does); more people are protected by guns than killed by them (no, they arentthats a flat-out fabrication); guns dont kill people, people do; and all the other perverted lies that people who can only be called knowing accessories to murder continue to repeat, people who are in their own way every bit as twisted and crazy as the killers whom they defend. (That they are often the same people who pretend outrage at the loss of a single embryo only makes the craziness still crazier.)
So lets state the plain facts one more time, so that they cant be mistaken: Gun massacres have happened many times in many countries, and in every other country, gun laws have been tightened to reflect the tragedy and the tragic knowledge of its citizens afterward. In every other country, gun massacres have subsequently become rare. In America alone, gun massacres, most often of children, happen with hideous regularity, and they happen with hideous regularity because guns are hideously and regularly available.
The people who fight and lobby and legislate to make guns regularly available are complicit in the murder of those children. They have made a clear moral choice: that the comfort and emotional reassurance they take from the possession of guns, placed in the balance even against the routine murder of innocent children, is of supreme value. Whatever satisfaction gun owners take from their gunswe know for certain that there is no prudential value in themis more important than childrens lives. Give them credit: life is making moral choices, and thats a moral choice, clearly made.
All of that is a truth, plain and simple, and recognized throughout the world. At some point, this truth may become so bloody obvious that we will know it, too. Meanwhile, congratulate yourself on living in the child-gun-massacre capital of the known universe.
Read more: http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/newsdesk/2012/12/newtown-and-the-madness-of-guns.html#ixzz2FFBNO0po
etherealtruth
(22,165 posts)Despite being cast in a negative light by gun nuts (an honor) .... this needs to be repeated over and over.
There comes a point when our silence = our approval.
Cleita
(75,480 posts)zbdent
(35,392 posts)votes against an "anti-abortion" amendment a MURDERER, but a Republican who blatantly advocates the rights of gun owners, to the point of insanity, is immune from being even hinted at as having ANY culpability???
MisterP
(23,730 posts)aren't too connected with reality!