Posted April 18, 2018 1:00 pm by Comments

By Patrick Richardson

Last week, the National Catholic Reporter decided to attack gun rights supporters with a typically alarmist headline: “Gun rights advocates pursue their goals with no restraint.”

The actual copy didn’t get any better.

As part of Time magazine’s recent article on the Parkland, Florida shooting, several steps were identified that could be taken to reduce gun violence. They represent common-sense, logical steps that would seem to be acceptable to any reasonable person.

Reasonable by whose definition? Note then that, if I disagree with them, they’ve already painted me as “unreasonable” and “lacking common-sense.” Certainly they cannot be expected to have a civil debate with such a person.

Not only do gun rights advocates reject these ideas, but their attacks against them expose these advocates as failing to care about the carnage they are contributing to by their recalcitrance.

Or maybe we just don’t think the things you people call “common-sense” are anything of the sort, lacking — as they do — any basis in objective reality. Moreover, isn’t it a bit bigoted to paint an entire class of people with such a broad brush. Oh, wait, they’re only gun owners, not “people.”
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