America Magazine on Gun Control

Typical misinformed drivel...Facts being irrelevant and all.

Don't forget to vote in its "poll":

Do you agree with this editorial?
(38) Yes (20%)
(156) No (80%)
194 Total Votes

One astute priest, Fr. Larry N. Lorenzoni, S.D.B. (San Francisco, CA), comments:

Yes, guns don't kill people. People kill people. But people with guns use guns to kill people.

We, of course can take this to another level by saying that "cars don't kill people. People kill people. But people with cars use cars to kill people."

Do we outlaw cars? After all, there is no Constitutional right to own a car and so many more people die from car accidents than guns...

As Bishop Fred Henry of Calgary recently wrote, discussing the Virgina Tech killings:

Once again we have been subjected to the endless entrenched debate over a citizen's constitutional "right" to bear arms and the need for greater gun control.

Much of this discussion misses the point.

This is not about guns, but about a mentally ill young man and a systemic political, communal and medical failure to meet his needs and provide adequate treatment.

"Much of this discussion misses the point." Just as the America editorial.