The New York Daily News put the nation’s obsession with guns in the spotlight with its front page on Monday, showing two handguns with the headline “AMERICA IN DENIAL” following a California rampage that left seven people dead, including the shooter.
“His family saw ALL THE SIGNS of a son ON THE EDGE, but cops said he was fine. He BOUGHT HIS GUNS LEGALLY. The NRA would’ve called him a MODEL gun owner. And then he became a MASS MURDERER,” the front page said.
See the front page below, via the Newseum:
Everyone who has one is a “responsible gun owner.”
Until the split second they become irresponsible.
“cops said he was fine”
!?!?!!??!
Did the man at the bakery and the dry cleaner also say he was fine?
What about a mental health professional?
This is spot on. It isn’t about one boy, it is that the entire US gun culture has contorted itself into believing that unless everyone has access to the deadliest weapons, the guvment will get them … and that taking guns away from obviously sick people somehow weakens freedom.
You forgot to add that a split second after they pull the trigger, they are immediately a ‘responsible gun owner’ again.
Hey, just because you killed an innocent person doesn’t mean that you don’t have a right to protect yourself from imaginary federal agents trying to steal your Bitcoins.
Yeah, and then if anyone objects, they’re “making a criminal” out of a trigger-happy patriot.