It's the guns, stupid!
Guns don't kill people; people kill people...usually with guns.
My View column for Feb. 5, 2006
My View column for Feb. 5, 2006
Gun violence is a raging fire. And if you want to put out a fire, you deprive it of fuel, heat and oxygen.Technorati Tags: guns, NRA, concealed, weapons
The fuel is the idea that guns deter crime; but as the FBI reports, the reality is that there were only 163 cases of justifiable self-defense out of more than 30,000 gun deaths in 2003. The heat for this raging fire is ready access to guns, and yet gun-owners are not held responsible for leaving loaded firearms where children and teens have easy access to them. Its oxygen is the belief that all guns are OK and this notion was given new breath by the failure to renew the ban on assault weapons.