Who will take responsibility for kids guns?
Sunday, May 31, 1998 BY LAURA PULFER The Cincinnati Enquirer Since last we spoke about massacres in schoolyards — and it really hasn’t been very long, has it? — I have received hundreds of cards, letters and phone calls from those who fear that my heart is bleeding, drawing blood from my brain. I have been told that the following are to blame for the children who have died, riddled by bullets in our schoolyards: movies, news media, immoral leaders, weak educators, working mothers, absent fathers. I have been lectured about personal responsibility: “How can you blame guns? Those little thugs are to blame.” In other words, guns don’t kill people, people kill people. Interesting thought. I hadn’t heard that one before. Does that sound sarcastic? Gee, I hope so. There are too many guns in this country. They are ending up in the wrong hands. And it’s time for people who are not deeply, madly, blindly in love with guns to say so. Even impolitely. The gun nuts aren’t worried about anybody’s
