The church shooting that just occurred in Tennessee, the story that seems to have been buried by the mainstream media, is a perfect example of this. The shooter only managed to kill one person before he was shot by one of the church members.Libertarian666 wrote:It is precisely the 2nd Amendment that protects our right to defend ourselves and our neighbors.ochotona wrote:I am a gun owner, but after the church shooting yesterday, I wonder if we, as a people, deserve the Second Amendment any longer. Because in 2017 there's no Honor or Virtue remaining. People are just selfish, sick, and twisted from the highest levels of government and business down to the rank and file.
If there had been a non-criminal there with a gun, the number of lives lost would almost certainly have been significantly less.
What we need is for every church to have armed congregants at every service or other meeting where there are more than one or two people.
The only way to make criminals not have access to guns is to make them ALL disappear, which I don't think is at all possible. Taking the guns away from the people who follow the rules will only make people more unsafe. It's illogical to think that people willing to commit mass murder are going to follow new gun laws.
So sad though!!! How to get people to stop killing each other, whether they use a gun, car, knives, whatever, is the real question.