RIGHT TO BEAR ARMS VS. RIGHT TO LIFE

I have remained quiet so far on the issue of guns. 

My silence is not however because I have no feelings or opinions on guns and the deeply engrained place they hold in our culture. While my ballistics knowledge may be far from encyclopedic, my silence on guns does not stem from a lack of looking at any of the wide selection of statistics and facts available to make one's point.

My silence thus far on guns comes merely from frustration.

The issue has been "debated" tirelessly. All points of consideration have been put forth. Everything has already been said. 

Yet despite all the statistics repeatedly showing the unceasing deathly effects of our insane American gun culture, tools of the NRA will ONLY acknowledge studies suggesting a correlation between gun control and increases in crime. They shout this talking point loudly enough to be certain the bigger picture is either overlooked or simply unrecognized. America has a serious problem with guns. Google the numbers yourself. Compare gun deaths in America to gun deaths in other "civilized" nations. Those statistics can no longer be ignored or silenced in the war of perception on gun control issues.

Invariably, every time someone tries to address the issue, we hear the auto-responses about how it is "too early" or "don't politicize the tragedy". Sorry NRA tools. When there are more national gun tragedies than national holidays, thus making it ALWAYS "too early" to talk about it, then your trying to silence the honest discussion about guns in America IS the politicization of the tragedy.

Speaking of politics and NRA tools, what inspired me to start writing this very post was seeing Bob Schieffer this morning say that NO Republicans would come on Face The Nation today. EVERY ONE of them said they either had a scheduling conflict, or flatly said no.

At least for once, the severity of the gun issue is being discussed without being drowned out by the auto-response cries intended to silence an honest discussion about how the right to life needs to be brought back into balance with the right to bear arms.

I for one have no desire to eliminate the right to bear arms.

We are far beyond that now however as we allow individuals to arm themselves with weapons of mass destruction.

Exactly where we draw the lines and how we craft the regulations concerning allowable civilian firepower and require the burden of proof of responsible gun ownership, (including mental health and mechanical proficiency) is yet to be worked out. But it is WAY beyond time to finally bring the right to bear arms back into balance.

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