Guns are the result; the Second Amendment is the problem

People hold candles during a Jan. 16 candlelight vigil for the victims of mass shootings in California. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images) In his Jan. 24 op-ed, “ We already know how to prevent mass killings ,” Eugene Robinson briefly touched on the Second Amendment. But the only solution to gun violence is to repeal the Second Amendment and make gun ownership a regulated privilege, not a right. I challenge politicians and pundits to start the conversation. Naysayers will argue that the genie is already out of the bottle (“There are 393 million firearms in the United States”), that we need to be able to protect ourselves (“The way to stop a ‘bad guy with a gun’ is with a ‘good guy with a gun’”) or we need to protect our liberty. And there is the argument that, with our nation divided as it is now, a repeal of the Second Amendment is untenable. I say poppycock. Granted, an actual repeal would be hard, a moon shot, and possibly cost some incumbents reelection or overflow the comments on an op-ed. I have arguments in favor of repeal but only a very small voice. There are smarter, more learned, better positioned people who need to start the conversation. Politicians and pundits need to address that guns are a result; the Second Amendment is the problem. Advertisement The Jan. 25 editorial “ No quick fixes ” pointed out that however numerous and varied the attempts to control the misuses of firearms have been, […]

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