Of course there is outrage on the left, as people cry out, once again, for some sane gun control laws to be passed.
Some responses from the right are . . . simply outrageous.
One anti-gun-control advocate said: if teachers had been armed, they could have stopped the killings.
And then there's former Gov. Mike Huckabee, who told Fox News:
"We ask why there is violence in our schools, but we have systematically removed God from our schools. Should we be so surprised that schools would become a place of carnage?"Last year, he said this about the mass shooting in a theater in Colorado:
"We don't have a crime problem, a gun problem or even a violence problem. What we have is a sin problem. And since we've ordered God out of our schools, and communities, the military and public conversations, you know we really shouldn't act so surprised ... when all hell breaks loose."It's not clear what Huckabee means. Is he blaming us liberals who insist on separation of church and state? Or is he saying that his god is so insecure and jealous that he cannot abide not being worshiped all the time, everywhere -- and that this god would punish those little children and their families because we don't pray to him in schools?
I don't think so. I cannot believe in a god who would do that.
Ralph
No matter how you interpret the second amendment -- whether an individual right, or a populace's right collectively not to be oppressed by their government -- the Founding Fathers did not intend for guns to be used as they are in these mass shootings of other innocent citizens.
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