One of the people who was wounded in last Saturday’s mass shooting in Tucson put an inflammatory document online, in which he attacked the media and private citizens by name (he’s probably going to get sued by one or more of the individuals he attacked) and said that the gunman was exercising his “Second Amendment rights.”
With all due respect, no he wasn’t. The Second Amendment doesn’t say ANYTHING about shooting a federal judge or a U.S. Representative or a nine-year-old girl, or any of the other victims whose names and stories we are still learning. The victim’s political statement is deeply flawed.
The gun is nothing but an extension of the person’s will. What good is a gun without a hand to wield it, a steady arm and an eye to aim it, and a finger to pull the trigger?
People have been posting the following note on the social websites. It reads in part: “…If guns kill people, then pencils misspell words, cars drive drunk, and spoons made Oprah fat ! Remember: Hold the person accountable for their actions, not the means they chose to utilize!!!”
Quit blaming the Second Amendment.
This guy could have just as easily climbed into his car and drove through the very same crowd that he attacked with a gun, like the madman who tried to run over Rep. Katherine Harris in Florida in 2004. That fool claimed he was exercising his “political expression.” I don’t seem to recall people trying to ban the First Amendment after that, or banning cars either.
Restricting the First Amendment right of free speech or the Second Amendment right to bear arms doesn’t deal with the lunatics out there who might go off at any time for any reason.
Build more loony bins.
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