Go to any gun shop in the country, bring a chair and sit and watch those cold hard semi-automatic rifles for as long as you'd like, and you will never ever see one of those guns do anything violent. The guns would not move. They are inanimate objects, just like rocks, or swords, or automobiles.
Says the liberal gun control fanatic: "B, b, but they're designed to kill people!"
Says the calm and collected intellectual: "No, they are designed to protect people."
That would likely be the end of the conversation, as liberals seldom listen to the logical appeals long established by responsible gun owners. Instead, driven by a heightened emotional state, they double down on irrational assessments and sensational claims about mass shootings. They claim we need to take away the guns, because guns are the cause of gun violence.
To simple minded individuals, that's all that needs to be said. Gun violence. The word choice evokes a negative emotional response and attaches it to an inanimate object. It is a misnomer, a catchy and handcraft phrase pulled from the propagandist's playbook. When the media whips people into a frenzy about gun violence, the politicians step out, right on cue, calling for more gun control -- which is another misnomer that belies their true intent, total control.
Any discussion of school shootings or mass shootings or gang shootings or any other kind of violent shootings, must be framed by facts and statistical context. Intelligent evaluation only happens when one suspends emotional judgment to re-engage logical thinking. When emotionally charged, we are not thinking clearly. That's just part of being a human.
Yes, school shootings are a horrific atrocity. Yes, mass shootings are heinous acts of violence. No rational person would argue otherwise. Gun advocates, or those who adamantly defend the constitutionally protected right to keep and bear arms, are not ignoring the plague of violence that seems to have infected our society, nor are they in anyway advocating that it be allowed to continue unchecked.
Yes, we have a problem with school shootings. Yes, we need to deal with it immediately, before more innocent children die. Perhaps there we can establish some sort of common purpose, and put our heads together about how best to move forward, but we must do so in a clear minded fashion, with our eyes wide open.
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