Our Usual Ritual – Thoughts and Prayers

On Saturday October 27, 18 Robert Bowers, A GUN OWNER, killed ten (10) people in a Pittsburgh, PA synagogue.  If you have not given your “thoughts and prayers” then you should.  They are obligatory are they not?  Nothing else and we can go about our lives until it is our time or that of some other unsuspecting American to be the sacrificial lamb. That is the price we pay to have the Second Amendment (2A) per one NRA member.

They may be willing to trade their life un-needlessly, but I do not want to and neither should you.

We do not need gun restrictions because “guns do not kill people.”

However, we do need laws to ensure that “people” (that either own or seek to own a gun):

1. Are mentally stable to ensure they respect and will not infringe upon everyone else’s unalienable right,
2. Properly store and care for a weapon of death and destruction, and
3. Receive proper training on a periodic basis to use a firearm with reasonable safety

Because “people kill people” and when they use a gun they are so much more lethal as observed for the past goddamn 20 years.

I am so fed up with the obstinate behavior of some gun advocates.  Hopefully, you are, too.

If you have been reading my posts, I have given you tools to counter these people’s arguments by using their own words.

I encourage you to:

1. Agree with gun advocates when they say, “guns do not kill people, people kill people.”  You should tell them we do not need gun restrictions, but instead restrictions on people with unstable minds or people that fail to demonstrate responsibility in properly handling a weapon or people that fail to respect others’ unalienable right.
2. Remind a gun advocate/gun owner that the US Supreme Court tells us in item 2 on page 2 (of the 157 page) Heller opinion which says the 2A applies to self-defense, the Justices state that there needs to be prohibitions on those that are not mentally stable and
3. Inform the gun advocate/owner they should use the total number of gun owners, not total number of Americans, to calculate homicide rates from guns because as shown above it’s the gun owners that are committing or enabling the killings of others and when that is done, homicide rates have increased – because the number of guns have increased – duh!