Posted April 22, 2016 8:28 am by Comments

By Liz Lazarus

Arin Forrest of Portland, Ore.  holds an AR-15 rifle at a pro-gun rally outside the state Capitol in Salem, Ore., on Friday, Feb. 8, 2013. Hundreds of armed protestors carried weapons to demonstrate their Second Amendment rights in response to calls for stiffer gun laws in the wake of recent mass shootings. Credit: AP
Liz Lazarus

As much as the Second Amendment debate has heated up in this election year, I often wonder why we’ve made guns the “bad guy.” Guns don’t kill people – people kill people.

Last October, Adacia Chambers plowed her car into a crowd of spectators at an Oklahoma State University homecoming parade, killing three adults and a child. Then in December 2015, Lakeisha Holloway intentially drove onto a Las Vegas Strip sidewalk, killing one person and injuring 37 others. No one proposed to have a ban on cars.

Arin Forrest of Portland, Ore. holds an AR-15 rifle at a pro-gun rally outside the state Capitol in Salem, Ore., on Friday, Feb. 8, 2013. Hundreds of armed protestors carried weapons to demonstrate their Second Amendment rights in response to calls for stiffer gun laws in the wake of recent mass shootings. Credit: AP

In simple terms, we could boil the argument down to three kinds of people: law abiding citizens, the mentally ill and criminals.

As a member of group one, I don’t object to having a background check or a waiting period before buying a gun. I do, however, object to registering a gun because …Read the Rest

Source:: The Blaze

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