Where Are The Right To Lifers, Now?

Where Are The Right To Lifers, Now? Twenty beloved, beautiful children and several adults are dead at the hands of a son of a survivalist and we're once again in mourning. And, once again, we'll declare that this "isn't supposed to happen here," and "how could someone do this to these children?" while we ignore the fact that twenty children are killed every day of the year, many of them by people wielding legal firearms. The difference is, of course, that most of those daily deaths occur in the inner city where "those people" live, and we don't regard those deaths as catastrophic; they're merely unfortunate. The fact that our Declaration of Independence guarantees every one of those children the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness is overshadowed by the 2nd amendment to our Constitution, which gives United States citizens the right to bear arms, as part of a well-regulated militia. Are we, as a society, actually willing to go on denying thousands of people life as we guarantee a few people the right to possess as many, and as many kinds of, firearms as they can afford? Do we really think that the people who loved those victims would be willing to trade their loved ones' lives for the right of some sick son-of-a-survivalist to bear arms? Does the right to life apply only to the unborn?