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The Newtown Lawsuit and the Moral Work of Gun Control
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Mark A. Taff
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he news that the parents of the children massacred two years ago in Sandy Hook, near Newtown, Connecticut, by a young man with a Bushmaster semi-automatic rifle, were undertaking a lawsuit against the gun manufacturer was at once encouraging and terribly discouraging. The encouraging part is that those parents, suffering from a grief that those of us who are only witnesses to it can barely begin to comprehend, haven’t, despite the failure to reinstate assault-weapons bans and stop the next massacre, given way to despair. |
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Millwright66
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One wonders if these grieved folks - and their anti-gun drivers - would feel any different if the perp had used a machete or a "blunt instrument" to accomplish his maniacal ends ? From all accounts he had ample opportunity/time to accomplish his objective with almost any sort of "weapon". Would the current crop of "naysayers" be demanding controls on garden tools ?
The key component of all "anti-gun" diatribes is they focus only upon the instrumentality; while ignoring the motivation. Why ? Because addressing the motivation leads to searching examinations of social/sociological and psychological issues stemming from our current cultural mores these folks rather not explore. |
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