I am profoundly pro-gun control and anti-broad public use of guns. I grew up in Canada and moved to the States, a process that has only made my stance stronger.
But all I can think in this case is of the tragedy of two lives lost, one of them a man who was trying to help another profoundly troubled man, the other someone who was in the wrong place at the wrong time.
All of them carried and used guns. All of them believed in guns. I could, if two of them were still alive, debate with them over whether their belief in and use of guns in any situation was correct in general or for this specific case and/or occasion.
I can't do that now. Two of them are dead. I will mourn them. I will fight the NRA via petition and money when I can. But I will not - as angry as I am - do more, while talking about this specific occasion, than mourn the fact that two men are dead, and the one who killed them is forever wounded.
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But all I can think in this case is of the tragedy of two lives lost, one of them a man who was trying to help another profoundly troubled man, the other someone who was in the wrong place at the wrong time.
All of them carried and used guns. All of them believed in guns. I could, if two of them were still alive, debate with them over whether their belief in and use of guns in any situation was correct in general or for this specific case and/or occasion.
I can't do that now. Two of them are dead. I will mourn them. I will fight the NRA via petition and money when I can. But I will not - as angry as I am - do more, while talking about this specific occasion, than mourn the fact that two men are dead, and the one who killed them is forever wounded.