(continued) I think the argument that gun laws only affect law abiding citizens is a powerful one, it only prevents the good guys from defending themselves. But your brother never addressed self defense really.
Also the idea that only guns are associated with the worst mass murders is demonstrably untrue. Many of the biggest mass murders in the past several years have been bombings, or even people running over masses with cars and trucks.
And another thing your brother never addressed. If criminals know a population has been disarmed, they are far more likely to go wild and do more and worse crimes.
Many people who do not own guns are indirectly protected by gun owners — because criminals don’t know which home has guns yet they will avoid terrorizing a neighborhood because of the risk of stumbling into a gun owner.
I am certainly with you on all of your points. This person is certainly not my brother, remember, this is something I saw on my FB newsfeed shared by someone else and it struck me as part of this very scripted and canned response to what happened last week. I thought it important to share with others here and to help expose how all of this involving last week’s event really stinks to high heaven.