School Shootings are Worth the Price for Freedom

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Here we go again. I’m not trying to minimize the tragedy, but the response has been minimized before it even starts. One more round of “we need more than thoughts and prayers” and “THIS time we need to do something” before it fades into the background.

But there is a reality that stumps many people, and it’s the title of this article:

“School shootings are worth the price for freedom.”

If you wonder why cries for action seem to fall on deaf ears, it’s not because of the big, mean ol’ gun lobby, and it’s not because of cold-hearted politicians.

It’s the weight of certain priorities within a large portion of the population.

I’m not making a judgement call here (that’s your job, reader who is running to the comment section to tell me to fuck off) I’m just letting you know what one of the common mindsets is, even though adherents to my statement haven’t quite put it into these words.

If the price of freedom to bear arms, to equalize women with a handgun against aggressors, to protect our property and lives and to survive the imaginary-yet-hopeful zombie apocalypse is an occasional school shooting, a disgruntled employee, an accidental shooting by a child who finds the gun, well then that’s the price. The rare (on the grand scale) loss is…