With the latest shooting the story has me thinking.
If my child is killed by a firearm would you give up your firearm?
If your child is killed by a firearm would you ask me to give up my firearm?
A few years back a good friend lost his oldest to suicide, never showed a sign. Stole his brothers hand gun. We have went to the range together before and after. These questions were not asked.
"It is hard to acknowledge that the death of innocent children is a price we are willing to pay for freedom. But it's true. And while we cannot fully control the vagaries of evil and death, we can be honest. We can, even in our deep pain, look truly at our role in allowing evil to flourish, fed by the fulsome fuel of freedom. "
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/texas-school-shooting-guns-freedom-constitution
"This is a conversation that we refuse to have. A debate between accepting the horrible risks of freedom or of living our lives under greater control and limitation in the name of safety. It is a conversation that requires courage, and one that we must no longer avoid. Freedom is dangerous, and it is no use pretending that it isn’t. "