I'm not a "gun advocate", I'm just against the politicizing of a national tragedy. I'm against this one in particular because this tired rhetoric of blaming th

I'm not a "gun advocate", I'm just against the politicizing of a national tragedy. I'm against this one in particular because this tired rhetoric of blaming the gun distracts from the core issue, and that is that there was a person mentally disturbed enough to want to kill a bunch of children, and guns happened to be how he carried it out. How did that person get a gun? From his mother, whom I understand acquired her weapons legally and after numerous background checks. Nobody sold this guy his guns, Congress never had the opportunity to come between him and his weapon of choice. If we're going to talk about further legislating guns to prevent this specific type of crime, we've only got one single option available: you go out to every gun owner in America and tell them to give up their guns, so that there is no chance at all that some crazy person can steal it and go on a rampage. And that is the reason this argument is so old, and why it feels so tired. Because you can blame guns and gun owners all you like, but that will never solve the problem.