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A massive number of people are on the streets around the world and marching against guns.

The emotion is obvious. The logic is not.

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Saying you want an end to gun violence is not a plan. It is not even a real message. It is an understandable goal, but if people insist on seeing guns as some sort of self-animating weapon, and to cast the people who own them as certain to be murderers, no solution to violence is at hand.

The gang bangers and mentally disturbed people who do the majority of street murder and school shootings are not impacted by the law. That is obvious, but somehow ignored by anti-gun enthusiasts.

The CBC, reporting on the marchers, must have used the best quotes they could find, so it was disturbing to have them quote a young person saying that the American Founding Fathers did not intend what we have today when they crafted the second amendment right to bear arms.

Well, yes, they did.

Patrick Henry wrote: “The great object is that every man be armed. Everyone who is able might have a gun.”