Just to set the record straight - I have nothing against guns per se, but we’ve been talking here about mass shootings, and my argument has been predicated upon the undeniable fact that (I repeat) without guns there can be no shootings??
As it happens I went to the barber’s this morning, and on the way I saw this punk-type coming towards me on the same pavement (usually they only come out at night!); I drifted to the opposite side of the pavement, and the next thing I knew (I’d been looking down so as to avoid the dog crap), he was only a couple of paces directly in front of me, so I had to step aside: it was obviously a provocation, but if there was an incident, nothing would have given me greater pleasure than to have a gun to point at him and say ‘In a few seconds from now you could be dead.’ It’s a sad fact of modern life that there are some life-forms who don’t deserve to live.
“When we fail to lock up criminals, society becomes a prison. When we don’t institutionalize the insane, then society becomes an insane asylum. When we don’t stop foreign gangs and terrorists from entering our country, then we wake up one day to realize that we are living in El Salvador, Mexico, Pakistan, or Iraq.”
I’d love to hear a congressperson read that article while in session.