The Symptom is Not the Disease

By Greg Camp

Fayetteville, AR –-(Ammoland.com)- The mass shooting at the high school in Parkland, FL has put the country back on the cycle of calls for thoughts and prayers and #GunReformNow from the various choruses that parade across our political stage each time we go through these tragedies.

Note that I’m using the word, tragedy, properly here to mean a bad end that comes about through a flaw in the nature of the characters involved. Tragic heroes flail and stumble through the course of the play, declaring their desire to avoid the disasters that their own actions are causing. And the audience cringes at the irony since we know how things will turn out.

Our tragedy is not that as a nation, we’ve chosen not to impose the kinds of gun controls that one of the choruses keeps demanding. Those controls, just like thoughts and prayers, are busywork designed to make us feel that we’ve accomplished something—or to make us feel that we did the best that we could in the face of remorseless fate.

Debating this subject leaves me feeling like Tiresias, the seer in Greek mythology who is ignored or reviled by …Read the Rest

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