Posted May 21, 2015 6:00 pm by Comments

By Robert Farago

UT Professor John Traphagan (courtesy utexas.edu)

Hook ’em horns! Or, in this case, get the hook! University of Texas Religious Studies and Anthropology Professor John Traphagan has penned an anti-gun editorial for dallasnews.com that starts with hand-wringing and proceeds straight to a clarion call for gun control. And lots of it . . .

In the past few years, Americans have witnessed shootings at a movie in Colorado, a 3-year-old shooting and killing his father in Indiana and, most recently, nine people killed in a fight among biker gangs in Waco.

Amazingly, Americans seem to see these regular incidents as normal. It’s a powerful and sad testament to how anesthetized we have become to this ongoing violence. And despite all of this violence and loss of life, many in Texas and elsewhere want to increase gun ownership and allow people to openly carry firearms.

Well, John, violent incidents involving guns are “normal.” When you have a large population whose citizens are free to exercise their natural, civil and Constitutionally protected right to keep and bear arms, ballistic bad things happen. Just as people who live in a society where they can purchase poisonous chemicals will experience chemical poisoning. And car owners will die …read more

Source:: Truth About Guns

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