- Top Features:
- War Room
- Glenn Greenwald
- Broadsheet
- Joan Walsh
- Camille Paglia
- Since You Asked
- Follow Salon:
Read other letters about this article
They all had access to guns.
They were also all humans.
They were also all males.
What else do you want to make illegal? Who gets to decide whether it's the guns or the Y chromosome or the humanity that needs to be controlled and eliminated for us to be safe?
Look up North. Canada has more guns than we do, and yet their rate of gun violence is very minimal, especially in comparison to us.
Besides, it's very easy to make bombs and the like from commonly available materials.
What else do you want to make illegal?
Sure, it's awful hard to shoot someone if nobody has any guns. It's hard to argue with that.
However, maybe it has a tiny bit more to do with the fact that at the very highest levels of our society, we demonstrate that violence, often preemptive, is an effective and accepted way to conduct your affairs.
I don't see why all the soccer moms have to come out of the woodwork every time someone gets shot and try to abridge our rights for the sake of their own piece of mind.
Outlaw cars if you want to make the country safer - they're not a constitutional right. My gun is.
