“Two separate shooters, in possession of semiautomatic weapons, came terrifyingly close to inflicting great harm. But the through line here isn’t former President Trump. The through line isn’t the Secret Service. The through line isn’t heated rhetoric. The through line is, as it always is, the guns”
Political rhetoric isn’t the only problem -- it’s access to weapons.
One of them did inflict great harm.
Being a car guy, I’m fascinated by the lack of pushback by many of the same pro gun/anti restriction folks regarding EV’s and the eventual “taking away” of their internal combustion engine. 🤷
Having grown up around guns in Wisconsin, I understand people not wanting to lose their guns, but to restrict the use of a style of gun (AR15) that was designed to impart massive damage to human combatants - c’mon. We don’t permit machine guns. So sad. People want to fight vs solve a problem.
It's actually not the guns at all. It's the people, it's the culture, it's the absentee parenting, it's giving access to people who are way too young to own a firearm, and it's the irresponsible storage of firearms.
“I didn’t grow up in a country with a lot of school shootings, or mass shootings generally. The gun industry was granted broad legal immunity by Congress in 2005 through the Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act, a major contributing factor to the soaring number of gun sales.”