New Study Details Gun Injuries Suffered by Children

[The Straight Story]

60. No, the reason behind such things

is that, unlike with alcohol, there are more than a few who want to remove that right altogether and only allow people who work for the government to have guns.

Add in that percent wise people with guns are not all out shooting up folks like some would have you to believe. Less than one percent of people with guns do so - so the problem is not ownership, it is a minority of people that own them.

We have tons of gun laws on the books already. But like with everything else in the world, from pools to cars to whatever, you will always have a subset where bad things happen (kids get hurt in pools all the time, car accidents, etc).

New laws, if they make some sense, are not the problem. Problems come in when you want the majority who are responsible to have to give up something because of what a few do - not to mention the bigotry that is promoted by bashing the many based on the few -something the right does well with muslims and we decry, remember after 9/11? We said that tactic was bad then but turn around and use it now with guns. Either it is the wrong way to do something or it is not. Why won't people even try to be consistent on those values?

We all want less violence - whether by gun, knife, beatings, rape, etc. Focusing on the tool used by a small fraction of one group and claiming it is the problem makes no sense. But it is easy and people can use their hate to fan flames and ignorance. Something we condemn on principle when used by the right but grab and hug the same principle on other things.