The Bill of Rights is not a quaint relic of the 1700’s

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Only the shooter committed a crime.  Only the shooter should be blamed. 

Gun rights advocates should not fall into the trap of blaming law enforcement for this shooting any more than gun control advocates should blame guns. Both may have played a limited role in the dreadful scene, but only the shooter committed a crime. There is one man to blame for this tragedy and Nikolas Cruz will most assuredly pay for his crime.

The simple fact is that in free societies, human beings will never be 100% safe from violence.  This is so because we are human, and humans are an unpredictable species. Guns are an easy culprit to blame, but inanimate objects like guns, knives, cars and nails do not kill people.  People kill people, and people are where the focus for solutions and greater protection must lie.

Liberals try to blame an object, while renouncing objectification.

Banning handguns was the target of the left in the 70’s, but liberals like to make good theater, so they have now focused on semi-automatic rifles, even giving them a dastardly name, the “assault rifle.”  Their drama and their use of guns to rally their base is deplorable, but this is the world we live in today where politics for politics sake takes precedence over country, good public policy and respectful civil discourse.