about half firearms. about half of all u.s. households have at least lea one gun at home, and many have. much more than that. plus, they have ammo, billions and billions of rounds of it. those are all real numbers, butg they are hardly an argument forn gun control. they re an argument, in fact, against ask yourself what would it require to confiscate allmmuo those guns and all that ammunition in turn, the united states into disarmed nation like turkmenistan or north korea? wellrea., it would take a police state and it would end in civil war. nono sam sane person wants eithr one of those things. but thankfully, we don t neehinn the fact that so manyirearm americans have a firearm withi n reach but never commit violence that gtbe that guns are no the problem. just as we can this country can be trusted with an ar-15, just as we can be trusted with cars and light aircraft t in andand electricity, basebaw and insecticide and chainsaws and pruning shearsct and countless other objec
the neck. at the time of that killing, bird had a documented historynth of gross negligence with aisce firearm. he left a loaded glock pistola i inloaded public men s room at the capitol, which for a law is a but f official firing offense. butor for some reason, michael the bird was still in the force that day. the woman he killed was calledld ashley babbitt. babbitt waashleys married 14 yea veteran of the u.s. militaryn ., she in a pool cleaning companyn. with her husband in san diego. physically, she was tiny. she was also unarmed.l by michael byrd later admitted here had no indication at all thated babbitt was carrying a weapon. visiblevi threat.le he killed her anyway.ay under normal circumstances, un would have been firedich he immediately and charged with murder, which he clearly committed. af but that s not what happened after doing essentially no investigattey e and into the shooting, nancy pelosi s congressional police force declaredlosi s c a national hery and the
have nothing to show for it. you haveve n no close friends. your family is in tatters of your two surviving children. one is a drug addict and theher other you re only living.daught daughter has been arrested repeatedlyer hasee and has also wound up in rehab. she blames her compulsions withhe fact you took showers with her as a child. you ve never been charged for doing that. s that y but everyone around you knows that you did. at this point, your wife thinkss so little of you that shekeep w demanded you keep working despite the fact she knew perfectlyor she k well thau had dementia. in retrospect, your life has. life amounted to a very sad story.ado and saddest of all, it sry almot over weeks from now youth will turn 80 . this is the point inis is your journey where a decent man turns inward. old age is the pause that god gives us to reflect on whate we ve done and what we ve left. undone. ifd e all, to ponder where we might be going next. ho you re joe biden, you would pon
the people around them knew that both killers had toldd other people they planned to t commit a mass shooting and then they did. what can we learn fromys this ? well, the first most obvious answer is that the system in place didn t work. candace owens teacher sent him to a mental hospital for evaluation. they knew he was a threat. they tried their bestea . cr he committed a massacre anyway. so we know for a fact that what we re doing isn t working. but we should also be honest enough to acknowledgeed that its very hard to know what to do. instead, despite what you may have heard, the problem isn t that we don t care enough. there s not a person in this h country who was not horrifiedht by the sight of murdered children. it s the worstre thing. and everybody thinks that them problem is that the human mind is much more complex and hardere to control than we like to admit. a person who is intent on committing violence is very hard to stop under any c circumstances. an act of con
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