Are we really prepared to say that we're powerless in the face of such carnage, that the politics are too hard? Are we prepared to say that such violence visited on our children year after year after year is somehow the price of our freedom?
That would be the exact question, almost to the word, that I would put before those who fear that the loss of their guns would mean the end of freedom. There comes a tipping point, when you have to understand that following your beliefs to the letter can do more harm than good.
In any case, I am not advocating the rounding up of guns from people who hunt, or who want to protect themselves in their own homes. But there have to be limits in what we allow people to own. Let's get together and define those limits.
President Obama finds himself in a difficult situation again, because of the people who believe, without any reason a sane person can see, that the government will be coming after everybody's guns during his second term. But we really can't reach the delusional. Reasonable people must work this problem out.
President Obama has become, or is trying to become, a symbol of government that protects citizens from harm, not of a government that is the enemy of the people. I truly hope that more people begin to work to build, or rebuild, such a government.
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