Materialism and "Gun Control"
On Thursday June 7, 2018, James Alan Fox, Opinion columnist for USA Today, wrote a piece about U.S. Education Secretary Betsy DeVos and the Federal Commission on School Safety complaining about their approach to making our schools safer. It's obvious from Fox's comments that he is convinced that guns have free will, and that guns are the root of the problem. Fox seems to believe that there can be no solution to the "gun problem" without doing away with guns.
This country needs better control of who can have access to guns as well as limits on the type of weapons that are available. This country needs a White House that is not beholden to the NRA.
The first sentence in the above quote unmasks the heart of Fox. He desires "better control” over civil rights, in this case the right to bear arms. Where have we seen that before? He should ask another 'control freak' like Chicago's mayor Rahm Emanuel how well "control" works in solving social problems in (what is supposed to be) a free country.
For James Alan Fox, and many others like him, the solution to the misuse of guns in a free country will forever be stymied by reality—ad infinitum. Even if there were no such thing as an NRA.
Hopefully, Betsy DeVos will be able to stay focused on the real issues. In the meantime, there are schools that are successfully addressing the problem.
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