Common Folk Using Common Sense

There was an opinion piece published in the Kansas City Star regarding a professional athlete that was involved in a shooting. Naturally a host of anti-gun loonies came out and posted their comments on what they thought about guns:

• People have no business owning guns. A woman raped and strangled is morally-superior to one that fought back and lived. Her orphaned children will grow up knowing their mother was a hero.
• Do statistics lie? You are more likely to die if you own a gun from a violent death. PERIOD.
• There is NO reason anyone needs to have a handgun. Get rid of the license to carry them and a mandatory long prison sentence if you are caught with one. No excuses for carrying one unless you are a cop.
• Live by the gun, die by the gun. How many more 2 year old kids are going to become victims of this idiocy because people like you refuse to give up the “right” to carry a gun?
• My point is about (anyone) and guns. The rules are simple. If you think you are going some place at a time when you think you need a gun, just don’t go. It’s really that easy.
• More guns, more violence. Period.
• I like the idea of having all gunowners should be sent to Iraq or Afghanistan for a year of front-line duty so that they can get a chance to use their weapons.

My, my, my. Where to start?

As for “If you think you are going some place at a time when you think you need a gun, just don’t go” I wonder if that logic also applies to NIU, Virginia Tech, Columbine, patrons of Luby’s Diner in Texas, and the Trolley Square Mall in California? Maybe people just shouldn’t go to “places like that” since they just have to know that a random mass killing is about to happen at any moment.

And as for the “How many more 2 year old kids are going to become victims” screed, how many more 2 year olds must die before we ban privately owned, unregulated swimming pools, or how many more must die before we ban automobiles, or how many more must die before we ban Prescription Drugs? Did the commenter know that guns rank number 10 in deaths of children at around 2%, far behind drowning and car accidents?

And if more guns really does promote more violence, then shouldn’t we disarm the police so as to completely end crime?

And for the “I like the idea of having all gunowners should be sent to Iraq or Afghanistan” should we also force all drivers to compete in NASCAR before getting their driver’s license, or all future parents to be made to provide foster care for anonymous children before being allowed to bear children themselves?

And finally the “A woman raped and strangled is morally-superior to one that fought back and lived” is so absolutely asinine as not to warrant a response. I guess it should go without saying that this comment was posted by someone named “Will4Barack”, probably not a woman.

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