Column Claims Adults Don’t Face Mass Shootings, Ignores Reality

By Tom Knighton

School shootings are horrific, and not just for those inside the school. The horrors that take place in a situation like that are indescribable. I wouldn’t even try to imagine them, much less write about them.

However, there also seems to be an impression that things like that only happen in schools.

No, really.

Titled, “If all adults faced what children have to face, US gun laws would change immediately,” the column advances the arguments from the March For Life crowd. However, it also fundamentally ignores countless mass shootings that take place outside of schools.

For one, the recent shooting in Aurora, Illinois where a convicted felon passed two background checks to get a gun, then later carried that gun to a former place of employment to kill as many people as possible.

It ignores a shooting in another city named Aurora, this one in Colorado where a deranged madman opened fire in a crowded movie theater, killing a dozen people.

It ignores Las Vegas, where a maniac killed 59 people.

It ignores Sutherland Springs where the killer ended 26 lives, not counting his own worthless existence.

And, on a more personal level, it ignores the Cafe Racer shooting in Seattle, Washington where five people …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms