OPINION:
The two lessons learned from the tragedy in Parkland, Florida, are as follows: First, no tragedy is too horrendous for the opportunistic. Second, for every absurd panacea put forth to combat the intolerable, there’s an opposite and equally absurd reaction.
Gun-control advocates, well-intentioned and naive as they may be, beating their breasts and gnashing their teeth as expected, have mobilized a children’s crusade as advocates of their proposed cure for the world. Gun registration was the original “gun control,” but that’s obviously an ineffectual method of control since approximately 400 million guns already exist, according to the Congressional Research Service. And all of those firearms will escape a registration edict because the Constitution explicitly prohibits enforcement of post-facto laws.
Besides, repeal of the Second Amendment and amending the constitution to permit post-facto law enforcement won’t accomplish the nirvana of the left’s dreams. Repeal of the Fourth Amendment and Fifth Amendment would be necessary for that. But the irrationality of what’s proposed has no merit with the phobic, so there’s an argument you can never win.
Not to be outdone in silliness, the clowns at the NRA propose arming teachers. While that would be more effective in combating a shooter than calling the Broward County Sheriff’s Office, I shudder to think how it would play out with the student body. If they’d had armed teachers in my schools, I would’ve never made it to fifth grade.
JOHN GALL
Arlington, Va.
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