Op-Ed Asks If We Will Love Our Kids More Than Our Guns

By Tom Knighton

One of the most annoying things about gun control activists is that they absolutely refuse to listen to anyone on this side of the debate. While we all understand their arguments and can articulate them just fine, they don’t seem to actually listen to any of us about why we support the Second Amendment. Like, at all.

Instead, they keep trying to make emotional appeals that make it clear they haven’t listened to a thing any gun rights advocate has ever said to them.

Appeals like this one:

We are the children of gun violence. We are the generation of Columbine, of Virginia Tech, of Sandy Hook, of MSD. We are the children who know every exit and hiding place in our schools.

When we were young we were taught to hide, if you’re quiet maybe the shooter won’t find you, maybe you’ll live. We got older and were taught to fight back.

Plastic chairs and textbooks don’t do a lot of good against an assault rifle, but if you’re going to die anyway at least go down fighting.

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We are YOUR children, and until you love us more than you love your guns we will continue to die. We will die in …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms