Conservative Culture

So one argues in Philly.com’s commentary. A teacher relives the story of several of his students who argued over the ownership of a handgun. One of them was killed. Ironically and almost stupefying was that he argued against guns. The student was killed not by the gun in question but by a knife. Would he have made the argument that high school girl-friends should be outlawed if two boys argued over the same girl and killed each other with knives?

While I am continually saddened by gun tragedies - Philadelphia is experiencing a spate of them - it is not possible for me to know the devastation of parents who have lost children this way.

Why do we want to go on killing our children?

Illegal guns used to commit felonies is the not the basis for or against the Second Amendement. The right is for law abiding citizens to have and use the firearms as they see fit. Name for sporting and also for protection. We may not have British and Hessian troops roaming the land but they envisioned a free country where each citizen retained those rights.

The historical context of this part of the Bill of Rights - the recurring nightmare of Redcoat soldiers - shows that every American family needed a musket standing against the wall, ready to load and ready to kill.

Not so today. The premise of the Second Amendment, the need for minutemen, no longer exists. In a free society we must rely on the police. We have more important rights to fight for than the right to bear arms.

I do not own a firearm. If I did, I would be loath to call it my “constitutional right.”

The Second Amendment will not go down easily, but go down it must. Marketing of weapons is too profitable an enterprise for attitudes to change overnight, but change they must.

When wolves as well as human predators roamed freely in the Northeast, one was entitled to defend one’s family and property with firearms.

Circumstances have changed; we need to reconsider that entitlement. Why do we want America to continue being the murder capital of the Western world?

Wolves and predators don’t roam freely? What did he start his article out with except more examples of wolves and predators. It shocks me the utter il-logic of the commentary. What scares me more is that this man is a teacher of our students.

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