Quote Of The Day

"But even me owning a gun still doesn’t get at the problem of getting guns out of the hands of people who are going to use them to commit murder and mayhem against the citizenry. My gun, if I get one, will be bought legally and stored securely, and used with safety in mind. That ain’t got nothin’ to do with these knuckleheads out there shootin. Me personally, I’m perfectly willing to have a waiting period to buy a gun, but then I’m not the one who gun laws are supposed to protect people against. Even though they lobby against gun laws as if their lives depend on it, gun laws aren’t even about the NRA. Gun laws are really about the people who use guns illegally. So in a way, that’s an attempt at legislating illegal behavior, if that makes any sense. Obviously it doesn’t, but I’m sayin’. We know what one side is about. There’s a whole bunch of people who want the United States to go the way of otherindustrialized nations and permanently ban handguns. Then there are others of us who want no such thing. But just looking at the murder rate in cities, Philly in particular, and being touched especially close to home this week, I’m thinking that the people who advocate the hardest for the right to bear arms need to get up off the principle and show a little interest in what’s going on around us. To me, the 2nd amendment is a lot like the First: yeah, we can, but just because we can don’t necessarily mean we should. So let’s find something between those poles that will actually make life better."

— Avery Tooley, moderate-conservative blogger, on gun control