“Olavarria assumed a mass attack was underway by an adult. In a sense, though, what actually happened turned out to be even more unsettling: A 6-year-old first-grader with a handgun had shot his teacher, Abigail Zwerner, in a classroom at the Newport News, Va., school.”
Medicynical Note: Our politicized somewhat corrupt Supreme Court did this. They are to blame. On one hand the court doesn’t hesitate to undermine and reinterpret the long accepted Jeffersonian concept of separation of church and state saying in essence that they know better than the founders. But on the other hand it believes it must not and cannot in anyway adapt the second amendment to modern society, because, you know, the founders. And in doing so is, in a way, responsible for this shooting and many other gun deaths in America.
It’s not rocket science. This court has worked to facilitate gun ownership. It claims this was the “intent” of the founders second amendment written during the musket era 250 years ago. And that they, the founders, would not have wanted availability, ownership or open carry of guns restricted. So, in modern day America we now have frequent mass shootings, school shootings, guns used in homicides and suicides and inexplicable accidental shootings. We lead the industrialized world in all categories of gun deaths, it’s not close. The crowning achievement of our gun laws IMHO, is this innocent six year old (I consider any six year old to be an innocent) bringing his mother’s gun to class and shooting his teacher, who almost died.
Yet, this court, the enthusiastic facilitator of our open carry gun laws, is the same group that has members who have complained about and demanded protection from peaceful protesters because they might be carrying a weapon. Because they feel threatened. That’s kind of pathetic when you consider the terror of kids nationwide being drilled on how to respond to a shooter in their schools— an event that was almost never an issue prior to this court’s gun rulings.
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