So why do many politicians on the right offer ‘thoughts and prayers’ and insist, while the blood is still wet on the school floor, that this is no time to talk about gun reform? How can they hold such an egregious position? In the last three years alone there have been 1,721 mass shootings, according to figures from the Gun Violence Archive. As for school shootings, last year saw 34 such incidents at educational institutions, according to Education Week, the highest since the organization started its database.
Enter stage left, the National Rifle Association. Founded in New York state in 1871 by two US Civil War veterans as a recreational group designed to “promote and encourage rifle shooting on a scientific basis,” today it claims a membership of nearly five million target shooters, hunters, gun collectors, gunsmiths, police, and other gun enthusiasts and has grown to be among the most influential advocacy groups in U.S. politics.
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Your article is possibly the most biased one I have read in ten years! So you want gun control? Yup, we get it. Now, WHY? Think about it with a modicum of logic and rationality and you will see that gun control does not work. Think about why schools are targets. Perhaps because they were painted with a bullseye when they were made SAFE ZONES? No guns allowed here=open season on schools! We protect politicians, banks, jewelry stores, courthouses, etc. with armed guards. Why do we not protect our children? T H I N K logically and you will be able to figure it out.
The continued existence of evil people is why we should arm law-abiding citizens, because only a bullet from them will stop the evil person. Police cannot be everywhere. And as we saw in Uvalde, sometimes even the police being there does not work out. Now, imagine a well-trained principal or security guard with a weapon who was on site. It would have turned out so differently. Also, think about WHY you don’t hear about law-abiding citizens stopping armed evil people in the news. It happens almost every day, yet never in the media. Again, THINK.