[Sopater]

When it comes to “fighting” for something, its not about the 2nd amendment. The government does not give us a “right.” That is where all of these people are wrong.

I agree with everything you said. We have the right to defend ourselves and our families whether the 2A exists or not. However, I think that the point of the article is that so many people look at tragedies such as 9/11, Newtown, Parkland, etc.; and start thinking that we need to stop defending our right to keep and bear arms (i.e. the 2A) in order to be "safe", which is an enormous misrepresentation of the facts.

[Vermont Lt]

I used to be an internal process reengineering guy at a telecomm company I worked at. When we would go around and start looking at a problem, we would ask people what the cause was. Although I did not keep statistics, it was almost always NOT what the employees thought the cause was—but usually something completely different.

We used to have an excercise called the five whys. You would ask “why does this happen?” And when they gave the reason you would ask again. Go back 5 levels. THAT is your root cause.

Try getting ANYONE to sit through that thought exercise. It’s not easy.