Does Right To Own Guns Trump Right To Live?

[SheilaT]

31. Apparently yes.

And every time there's a mass shooting, or some toddler gets a gun and kills someone, there's a lot of pious hand-wringing about how terrible this is, and an absolute refusal to address the core problem: the guns themselves.

This most recent shooting does have the added element of racism, and so is being looked at as a hate crime. But I think that not matter what underlying rationale someone uses to go out and blow away a bunch of people, it's simply not acceptable. That little kids get ahold of guns should be completely not acceptable. And so on. But so long as the gun advocates continue to feel that their rights trump our dead (and at least someone was honest enough to say that) we'll continue to have these things happening.

And of course never lose sight of the fact that gun homicides are decreasing in this country. Isn't that special?