Yet Another Gun Debate In The Times
It's becoming a local tradition: each time there is a bit of gun violence in Seattle, the SeaTimes runs pro/con gun control pieces on its opinion pages. The pro-control side is always represented by Cease Fire Washington, the con side is usually taken up by some citizen (interesting that the Bellevue-based Second Amendment Foundation never writes these). Anyway, it's the usual prattle on both sides of the issue, but what amuses me—in a sick way—this time out is the language Jon Scholes uses to, um, shoot down guns: He compares them to smoking and drunk driving and uses rhetorical flourishes like "high-powered" to describe guns. I am of course looking forward to Scholes and others beginning to compare guns to sugar and fatty foods and sex out-of-wedlock.
On the anti-control side, James Na of the Discovery Institute points out that restricting gun ownership because of morons shooting up the Jewish Federation and parties on Capitol Hill would be about like restricting adults from using the Internet because there are isolated instances of adults using it to seduce youngsters.
As much as gun control advocates may not like hearing this, we have a constitution in the US and its Second Amendment allows citizens to keep and bear arms. It's in the Constitution, I believe it and that settles it.
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