Posted February 5, 2018 3:00 pm by Comments

By Tom Knighton

Throughout the nation, debates continue on guns control and gun rights. However, what’s always amusing is when people prop up strawman arguments and pretend they’re dismantling the core of the gun rights debate.

Take, for example, this column from Rome, Georgia.

Two weeks ago, in my home state of Kentucky, two students were killed and 18 wounded in a school shooting at Marshall County High School. It was the nation’s 11th school shooting of 2018. 11 school shootings in 23 days. That’s one school shooting every other day in this country. And no one cares. No one cared last year about the Las Vegas shooting, and no one is caring now. If you heard about and remember this shooting in Kentucky, good, but I bet you can’t name the other ten that happened this year before it. No other developed nation in the world has this problem. None of them approach guns like we do, and we cannot allow ourselves to be fooled by complacency that this is at all normal or somehow tragically unavoidable. Most sickening to me is that for people to stand up and declare their right to bear arms apparently means we simply have to …Read the Rest

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