Stop Equating Opposition To Gun Control With Being Pro-Murder

One thing I generally try to do, though I’m not always successful, is to try and at least understand where my opposition is coming from. On the subject of guns, I understand that most gun control activists really do believe that gun control will reduce violence somehow. I even understand the mechanisms they think it will put into effect to make that happen.

I just get more than a little annoyed that the opposition never tries to return the favor.

Looking at the news this morning, I came across this story from The Guardian. Now, it’s The Guardian, which I don’t expect to provide quality journalism, much less opinion, but in a story bashing President Trump’s response to the coronavirus, there’s a paragraph that absolutely infuriated me.

“The coronavirus scenario I can’t stop thinking about is the one where we simply get used to all the dying,” the New York Times columnist Charlie Warzel wrote earlier this month. Just as America has grown resigned to school shootings and preventable gun violence, he suggests, it looks as if it is becoming numb to Covid-19 deaths. Just as the US has prioritised the rallying call of “freedom” over common sense gun control, it looks set to prioritise “freedom” over public health. Looking at images from the crowded pool parties in Missouri over the weekend, looking at Trump’s calls for schools to reopen “ASAP”, it seems as if that is exactly what’s happening. But here’s the thing the US might soon find out about its highly individualistic freedom fetish: it doesn’t travel well.

Holy crap, that’s rich.