One of the most appalling things that we keep hearing about today is school shootings which are usually kids from that school taking a gun to school for the purpose of killing another student.
It’s mind boggling to me that someone would do that as a child. When I was growing up, it wasn’t uncommon for us to say to each other horrible things like, “I’m going to kill you, man!” without meaning it at all (though, getting in a few punches was tempting).
But to literally take someone else’s life? It didn’t even cross our minds as anything to actually consider.
Not so these days, and there are likely many reasons contributing to that, one being how widely publicized these incidents are.
One thing that doesn’t come up often enough when discussing school shootings, though, is how school shootings are the most damning evidence of how gun control fails.
Repeatedly.
And we have another story about that today. Karen Lema and Mikhail Flores with Reuters write,
Two students were killed in a shooting at a high school in the southern Philippines on Tuesday, one of them the gunman, and the situation was now under control, officials said, in the second such incident in the country in less than two months.
Over halfway through the article is something that we all should be talking about:
School shootings are rare in the Philippines, which has relatively strict gun ownership regulations, including background checks and psychological evaluation requirements, although illegal firearms remain in circulation.
“Relatively strict gun ownership regulations” didn’t stop this school shooting. Or the last one, apparently.
And we all know that gun-free zones make schools targets of would-be mass shooters here in the U.S.
Those shooters are the ones telling us that through their manifestos.
When are we going to stop pretending that gun control actually works, that it actually saves lives?
Because clearly it doesn’t.
What does? More legal gun owners who train to proficiency, train to maintain proficiency, and carry daily. And the data, taken in context, clearly backs that up.
