“Gun Didn’t Kill My Boy..I did"

[SheilaT]

8. Why I'm in favor of total confiscation of guns,

which is oddly unpopular in many places.

If this man had not had a gun his son would still be alive. Is that so hard to understand? The real tragedy here is that the son was killed, not the father.

Every time we have another mass shooting in this country it's still not enough to come to genuine gun control. I do think that if every single day, every single gun death were front page news, within a few months even the most die-hard gun apologists would finally get it.

It would also help if each and every gun injury and maiming were also front page news, because those numbers are even greater than the gun deaths. I'd also encourage graphic photographs, so that people would understand just how devastating guns are to the human body. I honestly think that if we'd have seen the victims of Sandy Hook, we'd have had genuinely effective gun control by now.

But instead we have wishy-washy apologies for guns, no real presentation of the actual damage that guns do, and almost no showing of the human cost.

I've had it with the defense of the current state of gun ownership. I just want to say to each and every gun owner, as well as each and every person who defends the status quo, that you are saying you are perfectly okay with your child, your spouse, your parent, your best friend being murdered or permanently disabled by a gun. Because if we do not take away all the guns this toll will continue.