What a coincidence it is, then, that both these columnists enter by the same door. The stupidity of this non-argument is one thing. We have come to expect this of some. Their tone is another. But while firearm owners might not like it, we are nevertheless able to stand hurt feelings.
Victims of crime have far worse to put up with.
More important by far is the damage done by hurlers of red herrings such as are found so often in the media. The more they bray about support for laws that will do nothing to bring down murder rates, or prevent mass killings, the longer they prevent the real work from being done. Time is already disclosing what a pathetic failure the bipartisan anti-gun agreement has been in lowering crime rates. Of course, the Prime Minister himself conceded that his half-billion dollar program was essentially symbolic and could not prevent more of the same crimes occurring. What we need is for the authorities to look at the facts objectively.