A student who witnessed the shooting called out lawmakers on TV, looking directly into the camera and saying: “We’re children. You guys are the adults. You need to take some action and play a role. Work together, come over your politics, and get something done.” He added: “Ideas are great but without action, ideas stay ideas and children die.”
And when people say we need to discuss gun control, the NRA and its patsies in Congress say “Now is not the right time…”
So, when is the right time to start taking a rational approach to gun control, in a country where the possession and use of guns is out of control?
“A rational approach to gun control” acknowledges that guns don’t kill people, people kill people.
When Muslims use knives to “smite the necks” of non-Muslims in Europe, no-one calls for the banning of knives.
When Muslims use vehicles to “slay the idolators” in Europe, no-one calls for the banning of vehicles.
When Muslims detonate explosives at music concerts so that non-Muslims’ “hands and their feet should be [blown off] on opposite sides”, no-one calls for the banning of all chemical precursors to bomb-making.
When Muslims drown non-Muslims in cages in Iraq, no-one calls for the banning of cages.
When Muslims burn non-Muslims alive in cages in Iraq, no-one calls for the banning of accelerants or matchsticks.
When Muslims used 4 passenger airplanes to “cast terror into the hearts” of 3,000 people before “Allah destroyed them” no-one called for the banning of passenger airplanes.
People are out of control, not guns.
That’s an irrational comment, because in all of those situations there are either limitations on access to the tools that people (not just Muslims) use to enact terror.
You can’t buy unlimited bomb making tools you have to provide ID when you do, you have to pass a drivers license test, you go through security to board a plane, you can’t just walk into your local store and buy a cage, nor a machete.
Guns however, are easily accessible in the US. There is of course a mental health problem that needs to be addressed, but addressing the mental health and ignoring the guns is just as blind as addressing the guns but ignoring the mental health.
“Guns however, are easily accessible in the US”?
– knives are easily accessible
– vehicles are easily accessible
– pressure cookers are easily accessible
– propane bottles are easily accessible
– bleach is easily accessible
– fertilizer is easily accessible
– diesel is easily accessible
– accelerants are easily accessible
– matches are easily accessible
– box cutters are easily accessible
– cockpits are no longer easily accessible