William Rivers Pitt | An Open Letter to Lovers of the Gun

[The Straight Story]

27. Well, if folks didn't blame/complain about all gun owners what would they have to do?

Less than one percent.

So over 99 percent don't shoot others, have kids find the guns and use them, etc.

66 kids are hurt a day by shopping carts. I could post roughly 3 stories an hour each day on this.

Then claim I am outraged by all of those stories and that damnit, we need to do something. For the kids. I could do the same with pools and drownings, etc and so on.

When people pretend the core of the problem is something else it leads to controlling others who are not responsible for what happened in the first place. But that is so much easier to do.

Pass a new law. And another. Keep passing them. You will end up with thousands of laws that those same people are going to ignore because the reason they are doing what they are is not what they own. Common sense laws that say don't rob, shoot, murder, etc have been in place a long time. We punish people who do those things. Now we want to punish people we think could possibly maybe do something that some minority of people do.