CNN’s Don Lemon recently saw the light on this issue and highlighted the Centers for Disease Control study showing that so-called military assault rifles account for a small fraction of gun violence. The overwhelming majority of gun-related deaths are inflicted with handguns, but a ban on handguns is not only politically untenable; it would also hinder the ability of law-abiding citizens to defend themselves (especially Americans who live in troubled urban areas where the police are slow to respond to emergency calls).Has any other public figure asked this question?Instead of offering real solutions based on facts, reactionary politicians offer us the politics of emotion, which is the opposite of leadership. It is the manipulation of the people by the political class for their own political ends. It is so very self-serving, but, worse, it is destructive.
The first thing politicians ask after these tragedies is essentially: “What can we do to limit the freedom of the people?”
And that is the wrong question. The question we should be asking is: “What can we do to nurture and support a people capable of living in freedom?”
Because instead of worrying about how many legal guns we can confiscate, THIS is the debate that should be occurring in the halls of Congress.
“And that is the wrong question. The question we should be asking is: “What can we do to nurture and support a people capable of living in freedom?”
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Obviously the people who have taken over this country in a coup have exactly the opposite goal, they only want to know how best to convince people that slavery is freedom.
Anyone who thinks otherwise should explain how they think that the best way to nurture a people capable of living in freedom is to take away the last vestige of freedom. It is like telling your children that they will not be allowed near the water until they learn to swim.