David Hogg shares fellow students plan for gun control on Twitter

[Straw Man]

98. That's obvious.

It would seem to me that anyone who IS a responsible gun owner would be responsible enough to do this, to see the need.

To see the need for what? The revocation of a fundamental right, dressed up as a moral imperative and presented as the only possible solution to a phenomenon that screams "Failed society!" out loud? Bullshit. I am a gun owner, but I am not responsible for the creation of Dylan Roof and Nikolas Cruz. I am answerable for my behavior and ONLY my behavior.

The collective-guilt trip is the same old Catch-22: "If you gun owners won't stop buying those things, we'll have to ban them, and it'll be your fault." Please. The warped logic is plain.

Let me repeat: with 80 million gun owners and 33,000 gun deaths per year, 99.96% of gun owners are behaving responsibly in any given year, i.e. not killing themselves or others. Are these people supposed to be infiltrating gangs to thwart murder plots? Trolling the Internet for potential school shooters to interdict? Volunteering on suicide crisis hotlines? Would that satisfy your demand that responsible gun owners do something about the problem? I can tell you right now that the average gun owner has no desire to advocate for new and higher hoops that he/she will then have to jump through despite not being the source of the problem in the first place. But that's what you want, isn't it?

Remove one weapon and another will be substituted. The human mind is endlessly creative. Here's a question: What was the weapon that produced the largest death toll of any single attack in modern American history? Answer: a can of gasoline. It killed 87 people at the Happy Land Social Club in the Bronx, NY, in 1990.

Ask yourself why increasing numbers of Americans want to waste as many of their fellow humans as they can. That's the REAL question.