Or, do we...? You know folks; nothing you do now will bring any one back from the dead. No type of virtue signaling. No prayer. Not even a robust legislation. Nor will any of these things prevent people from being murdered in the future. There’s only one kind of dead; and you’ll never eliminate murder so long as people exist.
In shorts ... In life we sometime have to just take our lumps; and realize that “shit happens”.
Accepting the cost of dong business in a culture and society awash in guns is both short sighted and criminal nally megligent. The vast majority of Americans are crying out for common sense gun laws over the objection of a minority of citizens who, incredibly, find nobility in their personal arsenal and revulsion at the notion expanding that arsenal could be illegal.
No law, no legislation, no regulation can bring back the victims. No law, no legislation, no regulation oils a panacea. Shootings will still take place. But look at traffic laws as a paradigm. Would you deny that speed limits, DWI checkpoints, moving vehicle citations, licensing and registration laws, and annual inspections have not helped reduce the occurrence of vehicular deaths and accidents?
No rights are absolute. Not speech, not religious, not enjoyed by the press. The second amendment is not a suicide pact. The reason there still are assault weapons for sale and used to commit mass shootings, drive-by shootings, accidental shootings and the weapon of choice of nearly every school, church or theater shooter is lack of political will, not constitutional problem.
Throwing up your hands, shrugging your shoulders and accepting the lives of children to rationalize a lust for guns rings hollow at best, complicit in murder at worst.