Here we go again. Another mass shooting, and the ammo-sexuals are out en masse trying to defend guns, vilify Liberals, claim it's all a "Liberal" plot so Obama can take their guns, and justify the carnage as "the price of freedom."
As with every mass shooting before this one, my Facebook page fills with memes such as “guns don’t kill people, people kill people.” While this is insulting enough, it’s the ones that follow that are even more egregious. Somebody actually said this to me, and it kind of pissed me off: “Guns don’t kill people: People kill people: You can kill someone with a baseball bat or a car, but no one is trying to ban you from driving to the ball game…”
And this same guy started out his comment with "You're an idiot."
I've posted this article before, but unfortunately it just keeps coming back, and the same tired arguments - even though disproven, keep hanging on. And as far as I'm concerned, I'm no longer "empathetic" to the gun nuts and their logic and their vision of a Second-Amendment-America. So here's what I have to say: