Finally, I get it. For decades, every time tighter gun controls were proposed, the NRA and other gun huggers would trot out the mantra ”Guns don’t kill people. People kill people.” I dismissed the credo as so much propaganda until my epiphany yesterday.
People with malicious, even murderous intent force guns to commit atrocities they never would if left on their own. Guns become unwitting accomplices to evil. One might say they are victimized by the humans using them to shoot people.
No, guns are not the problem. Even a million more assault rifles would not cause a problem.