Strongly agree with everything in @gruber’s post about pushing for gun legislation:
"The aftermath of a massacre is the time to demand sane gun control measures. That’s when the issue is clarified."
There are already so many assault weapons out there, we won’t fully see the impact of new laws for years. Why are we okay with waiting even longer to start? Now is the time. It’s beyond frustrating to wait.
“Since no other civilized country on the planet has massacres like this, Johnson is implicitly arguing that the problem isn’t the human heart, but the American heart.”
I think that’s actually the issue.
And it’s why gun legislation won’t help.
I take it the author put this out there as the gotcha, but no, it’s the actual, reasonable conclusion.
We’ve already seen the failure of gun legislation. We already went through the process of seeing the impact of new laws for years. They didn’t work.
The American heart just is really more prone to malfunctioning like this guy.
