After pilots were targeted by the 9/11 terrorists, a number of airlines changed their policies to again allow pilots to carry side arms. Now we hear a cry for a police presence in schools. Well, we don't need armed guards in schools. We need to allow legitimate, responsible gun owners to carry their weapons in defense of themselves and their communities. That's what the Second Amendment is about. That's what we've spent the past 50 years systematically thwarting with gun regulations and enculturated squeamishness about gun ownership. Meanwhile, paradoxically, much of our popular culture glamorizes and cartoonifies gun violence in ways that, while not clearly causative of gun violence, certainly desensitize some of us to the horrific damage that guns can do.
20 children are dead because some decided to be evil and nobody was able to shoot back and stop him. A bitter harvest indeed.
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