One of the lynchpins of old world, traditional conservatism is the understanding that all rights are attached to duties. This is not just the idea that your freedom to swing your fist stops at my nose. It is the notion that every exercise of freedom has consequences and I cannot evade my responsibility for those consequences.
I’ll revisit this idea and post something later. For now it just needs more thought.[Read More]
That said, guns are the reason that a deranged loser incapable of performing life’s most basic tasks is able to kill so effectively, so efficiently, and in such mass numbers. A lunatic armed with a baseball bat can hurt some people, but his arms would get tired long before he could pull off something as serious as we saw in Aurora or Connecticut. There is no question that the broad availability of heavy firepower is a factor in the frequency and severity of mass killings in America.
Guns don’t kill people. People kill people. However, people kill a lot more people, a lot faster, with a Bushmaster.[Read More]