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Arguments Against Gun Violence: Why Do We Bother?

Why do I bother? Why does anyone bother? The senseless rampages that continue to claim dozens of victims, including children, go on and on. It is clear the country simply does not care. We are a nation of the armed. Gun sales continue to rise. And there is no meaningful effort to stem the tide. In point of fact, it really does not matter.

Gun Violence Is another Case of the Chickens Coming Home to Roost

Every time our children (and others) are sacrificed to the gun, as they were in the March 27 shooting at Nashville’s Covenant School, we afterward hear that it was a “senseless tragedy.” Far from it. Given our gun worship and their wide availability, deaths through gun violence unfortunately make perfect sense.

In Pro-Life, Pro-Gun Tennessee, Children Are Safer in the Womb than in School

It happened again. This time seven people were killed, three of them 9-year-old children.

Who Will Light the First Candle?

Courts have consistently decided that the Second Amendment grants citizens the right to own firearms. Inconsistent among those decisions are what restrictions are constitutional, such as the Assault Weapons Ban of 1994, which was challenged in courts unsuccessfully over its decade-long lifespan.

The real issue in the gun control debate is selfishness, not violence

November 1st's shooting at Los Angeles' LAX airport was the latest in a series of mass shootings. They're becoming so frequent that we've had to redefine the term "mass shooting" (four or more people need to be shot) and happening so often they've become a sort of macabre routine in the news cycle.

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