Kimmel writer quotes every GOP lawmaker’s post-Florida ‘thoughts and prayers’ tweet

[godenver1]

As the NRA does a great job protecting our second amendment
rights, I support the same candidates that they support. I know
you're attempting to vilify them, but all your articles show is that
they're doing what their members want them to do.

I guess that raises an interesting question: is the right to bear and have access to guns an "essential liberty" and if so, why?

No other developed country that I can think of considers that an "essential" right, if one at all. It seems that the answer to that question is culturally contingent. Does the implementation of more rigid restrictions pose a threat to that "essential right"?

Would it be reasonable to disallow a blind man access to deadly arms, or would his essential right be assuaged by such an action?

 

[pat34lee]

I guess that raises an interesting question: is the right to bear and have access to guns an "essential liberty" and if so, why?

No other developed country that I can think of considers that an "essential" right, if one at all. It seems that the answer to that question is culturally contingent. Does the implementation of more rigid restrictions pose a threat to that "essential right"?

Would it be reasonable to disallow a blind man access to deadly arms, or would his essential right be assuaged by such an action?

Would you restrict the blind (or deaf or otherwise disabled)
the right to protect themselves to the best of their ability?
Can they take karate or other self-defense classes? Can they
carry a cane or nightstick, or even a knife or pepper spray?

What happened to Europe in WW2? They depended on the
standing armies, which were 20 years out of date fighting a
modern German army.

If our country falls or is taken over, what will protect us from
our own armies or those of another country who invades us?

Europe has already fallen. They just haven't figured it out yet,
or if the leaders have, they aren't telling the people.

 

[FireDragon76]

It's even more sad that some are willing to trade their
own freedom and that of others for an imagined safety.

What freedom? The freedom to be gunned down at school?

 

[pat34lee]

What freedom? The freedom to be gunned down at school?

Whose fault is it that the teachers and students
are unarmed and defenseless at schools? Not
only should weapons be allowed, but we need
to legalize open carry and encourage more people
to carry a gun at all times. Properly trained first,
of course.

 

[godenver1]

Whose fault is it that the teachers and students
are unarmed and defenseless at schools? Not
only should weapons be allowed, but we need
to legalize open carry and encourage more people
to carry a gun at all times. Properly trained first,
of course.

The suggestion that students (psychologically and emotionally immature/not yet developed children) be armed with deadly weapons is quite alarming to me, and thankfully American politicians and school administrators, apparently.

I don't believe that American citizens should have their legally obtained arms forcefully taken away, and I also don't believe that sensible, mature adults shouldn't be allowed access to guns to some extent. I do believe America should work to cultivate a culture wherein gun ownership isn't considered necessary, or the norm.

 

[Ringo84]

"Sorry, kids...we could do something about all the mass shootings that happen in schools, but we just love our precious guns more than we love or appreciate your lives".
Ringo