"Now, will we finally have a serious conversation about guns in America?"
"No."
I admit, I can't say exactly why this conclusion sounds so appropriate to me. Or, at least, I couldn't, until I read the comments of Mike Huckabee.
‘When we ask why there is violence in our schools, but we've systematically removed God from our schools. Should we be so surprised that schools have become a place for carnage because we've made it a place where we don't want to talk about eternity, life, responsibility, accountability?
'That we're not just going to have to be accountable to the police, if they catch us. But one day, we will stand in judgment before God. If we don't believe that, we don't fear that.’
Huckabee is a righteous man, of course: former governor, a minister of some sort, and, even more importantly, a commentator on Fox: could there be any better credentials? And he's already told us that we don't have a gun problem in America, "we have a sin problem." See, if no one sinned, then there'd be no mass murders. Or shoplifting.
It's hard to argue with that.
Probably the "sin problem" is what is responsible for the fact that Arkansas, where Huckabee was governor, experiences crime on occasion. But we won't ascribe that to the inadequacy of the governor's diagnosis. We know, because Huckabee has effectively informed us, that the god who governs all things human, has either permitted, or perhaps instigated (Huckabee is vague on the mechanism, here) the slaughter of kindergartners where their school, following another federal law, does not permit organized worship in between classes on creationism and so forth.
My own state, Illinois, coincidentally is faced with the necessity of coming up with a law to permit "concealed carry" of firearms, because Judge Richard Posner, ruling for the majority in a 3-judge panel of the 7th Circuit Court of (federal) Appeals, has found that the state's absolute ban on the practice violates the Second Amendment to the Constitution.
