To Repeat: Repeal the Second Amendment
- 6 years ago
To Repeat: Repeal the Second Amendment
Had Wednesday’s massacre of 17 people at a Florida high school been different in one respect —
that is, had alleged perpetrator Nikolas Cruz shouted “Allahu akbar” during the course of his rampage — conservatives would be demanding another round of get-tough measures.
Keeping track of dangerously unstable people who shouldn’t own guns
but do is hard: Devin Kelley, the Texas church shooter, had once escaped from a mental health hospital and was legally barred from buying the weapon he used to murder 26 people in November.
It’s true that a gun in the right hands at the right time
and place can save lives, as the former National Rifle Association instructor Stephen Willeford proved when he shot Kelley as the latter emerged from the church.
Representative Salud Carbajal, a California Democrat, introduced a “red flag” bill last May
that would make it easier for family members to keep firearms out of the hands of potentially dangerous relatives.
Collectively, their carnages account for some 1,800 deaths
and close to 7,000 injuries in the United States since the beginning of 2013, according to The Guardian — though that’s only a small fraction of overall gun-related deaths.
Had Wednesday’s massacre of 17 people at a Florida high school been different in one respect —
that is, had alleged perpetrator Nikolas Cruz shouted “Allahu akbar” during the course of his rampage — conservatives would be demanding another round of get-tough measures.
Keeping track of dangerously unstable people who shouldn’t own guns
but do is hard: Devin Kelley, the Texas church shooter, had once escaped from a mental health hospital and was legally barred from buying the weapon he used to murder 26 people in November.
It’s true that a gun in the right hands at the right time
and place can save lives, as the former National Rifle Association instructor Stephen Willeford proved when he shot Kelley as the latter emerged from the church.
Representative Salud Carbajal, a California Democrat, introduced a “red flag” bill last May
that would make it easier for family members to keep firearms out of the hands of potentially dangerous relatives.
Collectively, their carnages account for some 1,800 deaths
and close to 7,000 injuries in the United States since the beginning of 2013, according to The Guardian — though that’s only a small fraction of overall gun-related deaths.