If all the law abiding citizens lock up their guns, how would they ever protect themselves when very suddenly confronted with very bad people with bad intentions?
How does that work?
The other practical problem with some law about locking up arms is who patrols that law in the privacy of our homes? That would also be unconstitutional. It is a an unworkable tenant...just like so many other ridiculous laws.
There have been some very well reasoned thoughts on this thread. I think where Bunny and I might have some common thoughts is on how do we frame our side of the debate with emotional liberals who we know are going to use this tragedy to take more of our rights away. The mental health stuff backs them into a corner every time. Remember..they are for ‘neurodiversity’....lol...and letting murderers out of jail....and banning the death penalty. They are the ones largely responsible for emptying out the asylums for the criminally insane.
I think another poster had it right in saying that we are being too quick to accept the premise...’that something has to be done’. The truth may just be very simple....life has risks..there are crazy people and we have rights that cannot be taken from us.
As awful as this situation is....we will never stop evil. Think of the crazy zombie man in Florida....he started chewing a man to death and killing him with his bare hands.granted he would not have been able to do that on a mass scale..but you get the point. A evil person with intent to do harm..can do it with common household products...he/she doesn’t need a gun.
Or we could take the stand of arming all of our schools and turning them into fortresses. Not sure that is feasible either though. What happens when the shooter is the principal or some nut job teacher with access already or the person with the ‘sanctioned’ gun, who we hired to protect our kids?
I just don’t see how we can protect ourselves and our children from evil all the time. Might be better to train them more steadfastly in the good and the Godly.