NYtimes concerned about GUNS, not about VIOLENCE

AntonioSanto DomingoNYT Pick
If you have followed the series of articles the NYT has recently devoted to "gun violence", and if you have read them with an open mind, it will be clear to you that the main subject of most of them is guns, not violence. The same can be said of the majority of comments that are in favor of these articles.

To put it bluntly: if Mr. Holten had used a knife to threaten his wife, he would not have figured in this article. 

The catch is that Americans have had since the Bill of Rights became part of the fundamental law of the Nation the right to keep and bear arms, and that the Supreme Court, in DC v Heller, has ruled as follows:

"Undoubtedly some think that the Second Amendment is outmoded in a society where our standing army is the pride of our Nation, where well-trained police forces provide personal security, and where gun violence is a serious problem. That is perhaps debatable, but what it is not debatable is that it is not the role of this Court to pronounce the Second Amendment extinct".

I am firmly convinced that gun owners are as opposed to criminal violence as any other citizen, but that they are not inclined to let themselves be led by special pleading into giving up their constitutional right to keep and bear arms, nor to let it be turned into a de facto government granted privilege. It is obvious, furthermore, that the US Congress and the Supreme Court are on their side.