The Wind Was Sown Long Ago . . . . 0
If you have paid any attention to the news, you’ve no doubt heard of the six-year-old who shot his teacher with his mother’s gun. (Here’s the latest as of the time I write this.)
The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette’s Gene Collier, says, to bluntly paraphrase him, that there’s no surprises here.
Here’s a bit from his column; I urge you to read the rest.
“This,” said Newport News Mayor Phillip Jones, “is a red flag for the country.”
Respectfully, Mayor, you new to this country?
This country did not lose its gun-loving mind last Friday. It took decades upon decades of ill-conceived arguments, millions upon millions of gun lobby dollars, and generations upon generations of gutless politicians to make this a country with more guns than people, a country with less than 5 % of the world’s population holding 40 percent of its civilian-owned weaponry.
