Debate about Gun Control

[David Horn]

(02-16-2017, 03:32 PM)TeacherinExile Wrote: We have paid an increasingly bitter and bloody price for the Second Amendment.  When I learned of the massacre of small children at Sandy Hook, I cried.  Wept for the innocent children, their parents, indeed for the country.  And when Congress--which the NRA pretty much owns lock, stock, and barrel--couldn't even summon the moral courage to pass a simple gun control measure in response, well, I knew that we were through the looking glass as a society.  If our Founding Fathers were alive today to survey the aftermath of any of the venues where mass shootings have taken place, I can't help but feel they would shake their heads in Prufrockian dismay, and say, "This is not what we meant at all."

All true, especially the last point.  I still have a hard time understanding how we got here.