It’s truly troubling to read the letters from dismayed NRA supporters. Leave it to “bleeding heart liberals” to exploit the shooting deaths of a couple of dozen children and adults at Sandy Hook Elementary (and a few thousand other shooting deaths since then) to promote so-called “sensible” gun control.
We feel for gun owners who’ve accumulated an impressive collection of firearms, only to realize that their guns don’t kill people. How can they be expected to “stand their ground” armed only with non-killing semiautomatics? And when marauding gangs intent on pillage, rape and murder attack them in their homes, these patriots can use their crates of ammunition only as barricades, and their non-people killing guns as blunt instruments.
More vexing still for our “well regulated militia” is the realization that protecting the constitution (or selected parts thereof) is immeasurably more difficult without guns that kill people. For how can they hold back the “jack-booted government thugs” bent on wresting the last vestiges of their freedoms from their cold, dead hands?
Since the Newtown shooting, 2,857 people have beenshot to death in America as of March 21, 2013.
Americans own over 300 million guns, about onegun for every man, woman, and child in the nation. Between 1955 and 1975, the Vietnam War killed over 58,000 American soldiers; less than the number of civilians killed with guns in the U.S. in an average two-year period.
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