Gun Rights My Foot.

       There were two articles in the news today. One in the N.Y. Times and the other in the National Memo. The two I'm speaking of are both about guns. The one in the NYT  is about  research done on the 2nd Amendment in which he finds that the original intent for allowing people to own firearms, in fact the requirement that people own firearms, was to join a well regulated militia so as to protect America, because the founding fathers hated the idea of a standing army. So, no regulated militia, no need for widespread ownership of guns.
       The second was in the NM and had to do with the near constant danger of mass shootings robbing us of humanity. It's getting to the point that you can't get through a week without another shooting spree. And single shootings and murders count in the scores on a daily basis. It's mind numbing to hear day in and day out how these atrocities continue. And then every other day some other state or city or municipality adds to the list of ways to own more guns and more places you are allowed to carry a gun, like church, school and bars.
       Here's the thing. If we continue down this cowboy, shoot-em-up mentality road, the time will come when police will no longer have the ability to protect us from lawlessness. The way it is may suit the NRA's idea of a utopia, but for most citizens, including most gun owners, life will become a hell on earth. Nobody will be safe to go outside or stay inside.
       The time has come when it's necessary to begin to put reins on these madmen. People simply don't need to carry a firearm to church or school or into a bar. In fact that last is the most foolhardy.
Carry a gun into a bar? Where you plan to drink too much, where others surely already have drunk too much? And you're all packing your favorite glock? Doesn't anyone see a problem with this scenario?
The worst part is that about 90% of those gun toters don't know the proper safety rules and haven't practiced with it under pressure. And that is the worst part. What you can do at a shooting range is completely different from being forced to shoot in a dangerous situation.