There is no catastrophe so ghastly that we will reform our gun laws

[protectionist]

The point was clear long before either one of you decided you wanted to comment on it. But don't let facts get in your way; you never do.

OK . I promise I won't let facts get in my way. Now that that's been established, so what are these so-called "facts" of yours. Got some ? Let's hear them.

 

[Centinel]

There is no catastrophe so ghastly that America will reform its gun laws - The Week

Look, we've collectively decided, as a country, that the occasional massacre is okay with us. It's the price we're willing to pay for our precious Second Amendment freedoms. We're content to forfeit the lives of a few dozen schoolkids a year as long as we get to keep our guns. The people have spoken, in a cheering civics-class example of democracy in action.

It's hard to imagine what ghastly catastrophe could possibly change America's minds about guns if the little bloody bookbags of Newtown did not. After that atrocity, it seemed as if we would finally enact some obvious, long-overdue half-measures. But perfectly reasonable, moderate legislation expanding background checks and banning assault weapons and high-capacity magazines was summarily killed in the Senate for no reason other than that a sufficient number of United States senators are owned by the NRA. It made our official position as a nation nakedly explicit: we don't care about any number of murdered children, no matter how many, or how young. We want our guns.

The response to the actions of violent criminals should not be to make it harder to people to defend themselves from violent criminals.