If there’s anything as American in this day and age as Mom’s apple pie, it’s Chick-Fil-A, which has virtually become an institution among restaurant chains across the country now.
People are so emotionally invested into Chick-Fil-A that many commonly refer to it as “God’s chicken.”
And I can’t disagree with them. I personally love a Chick-Fil-A sandwich.
But, sadly, not even God’s chicken is immune from people who wish to do evil things with firearms. Larry Celona and Chris Nesi write,
The fatal mass shooting at a popular New Jersey Chick-fil-A is believed to be gang-related, and the slain person was likely the target, law enforcement sources told The Post on Monday.
No arrests have been made so far.
One person was killed and six others wounded in the attack, which occurred when masked men barged into the franchise’s Union Township location on busy Route 22 and opened fire just before 9 p.m. Saturday.
Dramatic car dashcam footage showed one masked gunman sprinting away from the eatery, as well as several frightened customers running for their lives.
Witnesses compared the scene to a “war zone.”
Of course, anit-2A zealots will scream for more gun control because of this tragedy.
And, yes, it is absolutely a tragedy. These types of things should never happen.
But they do. The issue is why they happen.
These types of situations keep happening because more and more people are not taught to value human life (maybe especially the lives of those that they have disagreements with), and those same people aren’t taught gun safety and to respect firearms.
It certainly doesn’t help that this incident happened in not-very-gun-friendly New Jersey. I think that we can all agree that this type of thing is pretty unlikely to happen in Texas, for example, where people are taught about guns and about not resorting to violence to “resolve” disagreements.
So, the real solution to these kinds of things? People, especially young people, need to be educated to value human life, to respect firearms, and to know how to use firearms safely, and gun control laws need to be eliminated nationwide so that innocent people can defend themselves from people who initiate this kind of violence.
Until then, we’ll keep seeing these types of terrible incidents.
I can’t say I disagree with anything written here. My only observation is that you are using the term “gun violence”, which, in my mind, is rhetoric that gun control advocates use. For that reason, I would strongly suggest that we NOT use it. I know it’s hard not to pick up catch phrases when you’re hearing them all around you, but I think it’s worth thinking carefully about the language we use as 2A advocates to avoid unintentionally helping to further the other side’s cause. One good way to think about this is to substitute another word for “gun” and decide if you think it makes sense and is something you would say. For example, does anyone bemoan excessive “fist violence” when there is a bar fight? What about “bomb violence”? Violence is violence – any tool can be used to commit it, or just bare hands. Guns are just tools, and people decide how they are used.
Thank God and New Jersey’s laws, there was no one in the restaurant able to shoot back! [Was a prayer no one there said.]
Gang violence, not gun violence.