Good Grief Charlie Brown, why are you always so wishy-washy, particularly on Gun Control? Because everyone else is too. There is a fine line that legislators are still trying to dance around trying to figure out the balance between total liberty and keeping the public safe. With true freedom, there are huge risks involved. With total safety where guns just suddenly don't exist anymore, then people loose their second amendment (which means change, so it can be changed again if people really get paranoid too much).
Yes, we have the right to bear arms, but I would like to point out a few things to Alex that would have helped the argument get a little stronger when stating the attempts to help balance safety and freedom. First off, our guns are already limited. Like you can't have more than three shells in your shotgun when hunting for dove, and there was a ban on assault rifles from 1994-2004. Second, you have to register your guns, and there are attempts to run background checks when you purchase them.
But, the closest thing to a suggestion of action is more gun education similar to CHL classes. Instead, there is a lot more focus and detail in the Connecticut shooter's mental state is far greater than anything else in the post and then just ends the post abruptly. Yes, crazy people do crazy things, and that point in the blog is where the argument SHOULD have sprung from. There is wishy-washy. What could have been argued is that President Obama himself has said that this whole campaign for restricting large magazines, assault rifles and creating background checks is due to that shooting, and either "yay or neigh" on that.
It seems Alex decided to dance around the subject just as much as the politicians do when discussing this topic.
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