Another loon at the Baltimore Sun

[ericire12]

Cynicism has killed the gun-control debate

Americans have been killing each other for a long time - thousands upon thousands of men, women and children lying in the cold, cold ground from decades of homicidal violence, the bulk of it inflicted with guns. There are street killings here, bedroom killings there - single victims scattered across the daily news. (I saw my first victim 33 years ago this month, a woman shot to death by her estranged husband as she walked across a parking lot.) And then there are the mass killings, a squall of them this spring, with 57 dead within the last month or so, in a handful of incidents from California to New York.

I hear hardly anyone, anywhere expressing much more than a shrug about it.



It's an epidemic of resignation, and it helps the National Rifle Association.

Once upon a time, the gun lobby would hide from the media after a mass killing at a school or in a workplace. But the guns-at-all-costs crowd claims that mass killings prove we need more Americans trained in the use of firearms and adequately armed. If more people were armed, we'd greatly reduce mass killings, the suggestion being that potential killers could be stopped before they cause much carnage.

We have in our midst millions of one-man militias - trusting no one, cynical about life in a changing society, convinced of the likelihood of more dysfunction and gun violence, and convinced, above all, that few in elected office have the guts to do anything about it.

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[JC5123]

"We have in our midst millions of one-man militias - trusting no one, cynical about life in a changing society, convinced of the likelihood of more dysfunction and gun violence, and convinced, above all, that few in elected office have the guts to do anything about it."


    Can you really blame them? Here we are now, in a world where our federal government is spending us into bankruptcy, cutting defense, and trying everything they can to disarm the American people. And we are supposed to just blindly trust them to protect and provide for us?

    Sorry, but I think I'll just keep doing as much for myself as is still legal. Until they tax you for not being on the federal doles.